Hermann Conrad Wilhelm Stechhols [Stechholz] Papers

Hermann Conrad Wilhelm Stechhols was born 9 May 1852 in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Martin Luther College and Seminary in Buffalo, and was ordained in January 1974 by J. A. Grabau. He began his pastoral ministry at Saint Martini Evangelical Lutheran Church (Martinsville, New York). Shortly after Grabau's death, Stechhols resigned from the Buffalo Synod and joined the Missouri Synod in 1879. He served as pastor of Saint Paul Evangelical Church (Paterson, New Jersey) and Immanuel Lutheran Church (Rutherford, New Jersey). He died in 1928.