Henry Wilson Storey's History of Cambria County, V.II, p.448

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448 HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.

his removed to Seattle, Washington, where he married and has since resided.
    Colonel Prosser was a member of the constitutional convention in 1889, at the time the state of Washington entered the Union, and in the next year was a member of the board of commissioners of Lands and Forestry, and also of Harbors. In 1893 he was elected mayor of Yakima, a suburb of Seattle, and in 1905 was a commissioner to West Point Military Academy. He was gifted in the art of writing, and being fond of literary work, he has always been a contributor to the current magazines and newspapers. He is also a member of and a contributor to the Washington Historical Society, which is rendering a great service in perpetuating the Indian traditions and glories of that young and resourceful state.
    Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, in addition to being an eminent physician as noted in the chapter on the “Medical Profession,” is an accomplished man of letters. In the magazine of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia for June, 1898, is a biographical sketch of Rev. Peter Henry Lemke, of Carrolltown, written by him. Rev. Lemke, who was one of the pioneer ministers of the county and the founder of Carrolltown, was also a man of literary ability. We take many extracts from Dr. Flick's article.
    Rev. Lemke was born in Germany at Rhena in Mecklenburg, on the shores of the Baltic, July 27, 1796, and died at Carrolltown, November 28, 1882. His ancestors were of the German villager type, and had been under the influence of Lutheran doctrine since the early days of the Reformation. His father was a magistrate, and therefore a man of some importance in the village, his mother was a daughter of the village school-teacher. Dr. Flick states “the part of Germany in which he was born and in which he spent his childhood had long before his birth faded from the bright religious colorings of Lutheranism to vapid, colorless agnosticism. It really had no religious atmosphere, and everything seemed cold and dead to a soul at all sensitized to spiritual influences.
  “At the age of fourteen he ran away from home and went to Schwerin, where he made application for admission to a good school; passing the preliminary examination, he was admitted. He advised his parents of these circumstances which

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448	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
his removed to Seattle, Washington, where he married and has since resided. Colonel Prosser was a member of the constitutional convention in 1889, at the time the state of Washington entered the Union, and in the next year was a member of the board of commissioners of Lands and Forestry, and also of Harbors. In 1893 he was elected mayor of Yakima, a suburb of Seattle, and in 1905 was a commissioner to West Point Military Academy. He was gifted in the art of writing, and being fond of literary work, he has always been a contributor to the current magazines and newspapers. He is also a member of and a contributor to the Washington Historical Society, which is rendering a great service in perpetuating the Indian traditions and glories of that young and resourceful state. Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, in addition to being an eminent physician as noted in the chapter on the “Medical Profession,” is an accomplished man of letters. In the magazine of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia for June, 1898, is a biographical sketch of Rev. Peter Henry Lemke, of Carrolltown, written by him. Rev. Lemke, who was one of the pioneer ministers of the county and the founder of Carrolltown, was also a man of literary ability. We take many extracts from Dr. Flick's article. Rev. Lemke was born in Germany at Rhena in Mecklenburg, on the shores of the Baltic, July 27, 1796, and died at Carrolltown, November 28, 1882. His ancestors were of the German villager type, and had been under the influence of Lutheran doctrine since the early days of the Reformation. His father was a magistrate, and therefore a man of some importance in the village, his mother was a daughter of the village school-teacher. Dr. Flick states “the part of Germany in which he was born and in which he spent his childhood had long before his birth faded from the bright religious colorings of Lutheranism to vapid, colorless agnosticism. It really had no religious atmosphere, and everything seemed cold and dead to a soul at all sensitized to spiritual influences. “At the age of fourteen he ran away from home and went to Schwerin, where he made application for admission to a good school; passing the preliminary examination, he was admitted. He advised his parents of these circumstances which