John Sideman Gingerich was born in 1819 in Walker Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. (In 1831 that area would become Juniata County.) He was the third son of John and Martha Magdalena (Kopff) Gingerich. In 1845 he married Elizabeth Wallis in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. In 1855 John Sideman was given a license to preach by the United Brethren in Christ church. In the same year, he went to do missionary work in "Bleeding Kansas" along...
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