Lutheran clergyman, church organizer, b. Lancaster, Pa. He graduated from Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., and the theological seminary in Philadelphia (1873), and was ordained shortly thereafter. He served as pastor in Philadelphia for 10 years, and taught at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minn. (1883-1889). In 1889 he moved to Milwaukee, and the next year organized the first English Lutheran congregation in Wisconsin. From that time on Frick was actively engaged in preparing the way for the establishment of English-speaking Lutheran churches, earning the title, "Father of English Lutheranism." He was a founder, lecturer, and for 25 years a director of the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, the author of a biography of Henry M. Muhlenberg, and a frequent contributor to church journals. He was recording secretary of the General Council of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in North America, and a founder, first secretary (1891-1893, 1905-1918), and president (1894-1901) of the English Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the Northwest. J. A. Watrous, Memoirs of Milwaukee Co. (2 vols., Madison, 1909); Who Was Who in Amer. (1943); Natl. Cyclopaedia Amer. Biog., 18 (1922); Milwaukee journal, Aug. 20, 1918.Learn More
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