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Heptner, Emil Theodor

The Rev. Emil Theodor Heptner was born on 19 September 1829 in Livonia.

He studied theology at the University of Dorpat. He was ordained on 23 August 1859 and served the congregation in Rosenberg from that date to 1863, and then the congregation in Näb from 1863 until his death there on 16 March 1894.

He was married to Olga Karoline Jürgens and they are the father of the Rev. Nathaniel Woldemar Emil Heptner. Pastor Emil Heptner's second wife was Molly Karolina Sophia Henning whom he married in 1886 in St. Petersburg following the death of his first wife.

Heptner, Nathanael Woldemar

Pastor Heptner, son of the Rev. Emil Theodor Heptner & Olga Karolina Jürgens, was born 11 October 1862 in Rosenberg. He was ordained 16 January 1894. In 1922 he was banished to the prison in Irdel where he remained until 1926. In 1929, he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment which was commuted to exile in Spoloz a.d. Lena where he died on 17 March 1933.

He served the parish in Näb from 1895 to 1929.

Hergert, Elias

The Reverend Elias (Eli) Hergert was born 22 June 1878 in Brunnental, Russia, and was confirmed there in 1893 by Pastor Stuher. In 1900, he married Maria Elisabeth Liebrecht. Elias Hergert was a teacher is Siberia before coming to the United States in 1908 where he joined his brother Jacob in Portland. In 1912, he entered the Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis and following graduation served Peace Lutheran Church (now St. Johns Lutheran Church) in the Sellwood district of Portland until 1916, when for a year he became a home missionary in Sheridan, Wyoming, and Hardin, Montana.

Hergert, Jacob E.

The Reverend Jacob Hergert immigrated to the United States in 1893 and was naturalized in 1899. He was born 15 August 1859 in Brunnental. He married Christine Lohrei in 1877. He was a minister in the Evangelical Church and served Evangelical Lutheran in Endicott and St. John's in Alkali Flat (both 1894-1897) and Zion Church in Walla Walla, Washington (1897-1904). He also served Immanuel Church in Packard (1899-1902) while living in Walla Walla. In 1904, he moved to Portland where he helped organized St. Paul's Evangelical & Reformed Church.

Herwig, Johann Georg

The Rev. Johann Georg Herwig, son of teacher Conrad H. Herwig and Elisabeth (surname unknown), was born in Aue near Eschwege (Germany) on 11 July 1714 and died in Norka on 29 April 1782. He married in Willershausen, Hessen (Germany) on 12 February 1742 to Sophie Elisabeth Stippus. She was born in Willershausen (Germany) on 29 October 1710.

He started his theological studies on 25 September 1736 at the seminary in Marburg. From 1741 to 1756, he served as pastor in Willershausen near Herleshausen.