Excerpt from The Stork Family in the Lutheran Church: Or Biographical Sketches of Rev. Charles Augustus Gottlieb Stork, Rev. Theophilus Stork, D. D., And Rev. Charles A. Stork, D. DHis volume is the first contribution to the series of biographies of some deceased ministers, which the Board of Publication has resolved to issue. It is singu lar in one respect, that it embraces the sketches of three men of the same name, and bearing to each other the near relations of grandfather, son and grandson. There are similar kinships in a few of the families of our min isters, but as the grandsons are still living, it is not likely that for years there will be another book published in which the lives of all three shall be narrated.The writer of the present volume regrets that he was limited to so small a space for the full exhibition of the lives of these three most worthy men. He was com pelled reluctantly to omit much that would have more fully illustrated their characters, but as a considerable portion of the writings of two of them has been published in books, reviews, magazines and church papers, he was not permitted by the committee of the Board to intro duce any of them, even extracts, into their biographies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.