Rev. Michael J. Steck and Catherine Cope

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Husband Rev. Michael J. Steck ¹

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           Born: 1 May 1793 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Buried:  - German Lutheran Church Cemetery, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Rev. John Michael Steck (1756-1830) 1 2
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Wife Catherine Cope ³

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Children

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1 M Caleb A. Steck ³

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           Born: 13 Jan 1820 - Lancaster Co, OH 3
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         Spouse: Margaret S. Baughman (      -      ) 3

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2 M Michael J. Steck ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Michael J. Steck

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He was one of the founders of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lutheran synod and its first president. He received a liberal education, was licensed to preach, served several of his father's remote congregations and accepted a call at Lancaster, Ohio, where he served for fourteen years with wonderful success. In 1829 at his father's request he returned to assist him at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Two years later upon the death of his father, he succeeded his father as pastor of the Greensburg charge which then included eleven churches and several stations. For eighteen years he labored arduously, incessantly and successfully in Westmoreland County. During his entire ministry of thirty-two years he preached over eight thousand sermons, baptized five thousand children and received two thousand persons into the Lutheran church. About 1847 he attempted to found a seminary at Greensburg; quite a number of students had been secured, several professors engaged and the plans and specifications for the building made out, when he died and his death alone prevented its establishment.
One of his biographers makes record of him as follows: "He was eminently practical and saw clearly what were the true interests of his church. He labored with untiring zeal for the introduction of the English language into the services of the church, and did much for the organization of the English congregations in Greensburg and vicinity. The qualifications of a good preacher and successful pastor he united in a more than ordinary or common degree. His appearance in the pulpit was prepossessing, his enunciation distinct, his manner natural, earnest and impressive, his style simple and practical, his matter evangelical and his appeals to the sinner affectionate and earnest."

He and his wife had eleven children.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 167.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 822.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 168.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 248.