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[[File:MLA2006-0155.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Harvey G. Allebach, ca. 1895<br />
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Harvey G. Allebach's modest life, interrupted often by ill health, does not do justice to his ministry as gifted student, teacher, preacher, poet, pastor, editor, and naturalist. He was born 18 February 1869 and died 3 December 1921.

Harvey was born to Jacob R. and Elizabeth Gottshall Allebach, in Lower Salford Township, [[Montgomery County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Montgomery County]], [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]]. When he was two, his mother died from smallpox, and for several years he lived with his maternal grandparents, Mose and Mary Gottshall. When his father married Sarah Markley in 1873, he went to their new home in Green Lane, Pennsylvania, where he and his half-sister, [[Allebach, Ann Jemima (1874-1918)|Ann Jemima]], grew up. He was educated at Ursinus College and graduated with honors from the University of [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]]. He was a teacher and principal at several high schools in his native county and taught for one year at the East Orange, New Jersey Collegiate Institute for women, a school conducted by his half-sister.

Early in life he felt [[Ministry, Call to the|called into the ministry]] and was licensed, and later ordained, by his uncle, [[Gottshall, William Shelly (1865-1941)|William S. Gottshall]]. He served in his home congregation at [[Eden Mennonite Church (Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, USA)|Schwenksville]] and frequently preached at the [[First Mennonite Church (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)|First Mennonite Church]], [[Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA)|Philadelphia]], where he was active in [[Christian Endeavor|Christian Endeavor]] during his university days. He was pastor of Mennonite churches at [[Eicher Emmanuel Mennonite Church (Wayland, Iowa, USA)|Eicher]] and [[Wayland (Iowa, USA)|Wayland]], [[Iowa (USA)|Iowa]], for several years beginning in 1894; taught at the [[Darlington Mennonite Mission (Darlington, Oklahoma, USA)|Araphaho Mission School]], Darlington, Oklahoma Territory, for one year; and was pastor of the [[First Mennonite Church (Pottsdown, Pennsylvania, USA)|Pottstown]] and [[Boyertown Mennonite Church (Boyertown, Pennsylvania, USA)|Boyertown]], Pennsylvania, Mennonite congregations (GCM). He edited <em> [[Mennonite, The (Periodical, 1885-1998)|The Mennonite]] </em> at [[Berne (Indiana, USA)|Berne, Indiana]], 1902-1905. From 1914 to 1921, he was pastor of the East and [[West Swamp Mennonite Church (Quakertown, Pennsylvania, USA)|West Swamp]] congregation, as well as the [[Bethany Mennonite Church (Quakertown, Pennsylvania, USA)|Bethany]] and [[Flatland Mennonite Church (Quakertown, Pennsylvania, USA)|Flatland]] congregations in Pennsylvania. After a long struggle with tuberculosis, he succumbed to pneumonia His body was buried in the Mennonite [[Cemeteries|cemetery]] high on Mine Hill at Schwenksville.
= Bibliography =
"Biography," <em>Mennonite Yearbook and Almanac</em> (1923)

Allebach, H. G. <em>Echoes from Parnassus</em>. Berne IN, 1902.

Ruth, John L. <em>Maintaining the Right Fellowship</em>. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1984: 411, 412, 423, 424, 439.

Swartz, Freeman H. "Contemporaries in 1921." <em>Messenger, Eastern District Conference.</em> 7, no. 4 (Summer 1954).
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