Ann Allebach

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Ann Allebach

Ann Jemima Allebach (born May 8, 1874 in Montgomery County , Pennsylvania , † April 27, 1918 ) was an American cleric, teacher and suffragette . She was the first woman to be ordained a Mennonite pastor in North America , and after her appointment on January 15, 1911, it was 1973 before the next Mennonite pastor could be ordained.

Allebach was also the first woman from Kings County, New York (Brooklin) to be selected as a delegate to a national party convention. She was sent to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1912 as a delegate for the Eighteenth Assembly District of the State Convention of the Progressive Party in Syracuse , but was ultimately not allowed to attend.

Youth and education

Allebach was born on May 8, 1874 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and grew up near Schwenksville. Her parents were Sarah Markley Allebach and the banker and postmaster Jacob R. Allebach. As a child, she founded a chapter of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor in her hometown. In 1893 she became the head of a school in East Orange, New Jersey and began her college studies. She studied at Ursinus College, New York University , Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary . After graduating, she taught at Perkiomen Seminary in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.

Further life

ordination

She requested ordination from the pastor in her home church and a pastor in Philadelphia . Their request was granted, despite the general opposition to female pastors in this part of Pennsylvania for several decades. She was ordained a pastor on January 15, 1911, in First Mennonite Church, Philadelphia. She returned to New York City and lived in Brooklyn .

“I foresee and foretell the time when, under good citizenship in the right sense and equality, an Americanized continent shall contemplate and inspire an Americanized world. Not a world or continents under single or similar control, but with moralized and spiritualized with the principles of liberty, equality, justice and opportunity regulated by righteous law, inspired by a righteous people, loving right, hating evil, helping the weak and restoring humanity to the plane of human brotherhood and sisterhood whereon it shall walk hand in hand with the Divine Fatherhood. "

“I see and predict the day when, under good citizenship in the right sense and equality, an Americanized continent will consider and be the inspiration for an Americanized world. Not a world or continent under a single or similar control, but with governments that moralize and spiritualized by the principles of freedom, equality, justice and opportunity regulated by just laws, inspired by a just people who love and hates evil, helps the weak and restores humanity to the level of human brotherhood, where all are hand in hand with divine fatherhood. "

- Ann Allebach

Suffragette

Upon her return to New York City, she gave speeches on women's right to preach and supported efforts to get women to vote . In Brooklyn, she preached at Marcy Avenue Baptist Church from 1913 to 1915. She was also a pastor for the poor and was regularly invited to preach in Pennsylvania. In 1916 she was called to pastor the Sunnyside Reformed Church on Long Island .

She died on April 27, 1918 of complications from a heart attack.

literature

  • J. Herbert Fretz: Allebach, Ann Jemima (1874-1918) ( English ) In: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online . February 8, 2016. Fretz1990.
  • Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon: Women of Anabaptist Traditions. In: Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women and religion: methods of study and reflection. Volume 1, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 2006, ISBN 0-253-34685-1 , p. 268, ( books.google.com ).
  • Rev. Ann J. Allebach, Known in Berks, Speaks of Work . In: The Reading Eagle , December 20, 1911. Retrieved February 8, 2016. 
  • True Spirit of the Ballot is Humanitarian . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle , Newspapers.com, June 8, 1913, p. 15. 
  • Miss Allebach to Preach . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle , Newspapers.com, Jan 15, 1916, p. 9. 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Fretz: 1990.
  2. ↑ a b c d Skinner Keller: 2006.
  3. ↑ a b c d e The Reading Eagle. 1911.
  4. ^ The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1913.
  5. ^ The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1916.
personal data
SURNAME Allebach, Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allebach, Ann Jemima (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman, teacher, and suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Montgomery County , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1918