Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-12
Rev. Henry H. Sangree
Dies After a Long and
Useful Life in Church

The passing of the Rev. Henry II.
Sangree, eldest of the family of the
Rev. Milton H. Sangree, whose min
isterial activities closed seven years
ago with his death, will be signifi-
cant to many persons in Steelton.
who knew how Mr.. Sangree worked
to alleviate the situation in Steelton
some years ago during the so-called
hard times. The Steel Company was
compelled in that moment of suffer-
ing to establish free eating places
and in every way look after the
poor. Mr.. Sangree, as pastor of the
Fourth Reformed Church, at Second
and Swatara streets, offered his
services, and Major Bent, who was
then head of the industry, put him
in charge of all benevolent activi-
ties. When the period of suffering
was over the Steel Company was
generous enough to offer him a trip
to Cuba for recuperation, and sent
along Quincy Bent, now located in
Bethlehem with the Bethlehem
Steel Company.
Mr.. Sangree was 81 years of age
and the head of the Sangree family.
He was the last man to graduate at
old Mercersburg College and he
liked to relate how he crawled out
of a window from the deserted build
ing and made his way to Franklin
and Marshall to complete his col
lege education. He had the privilege
at Mercersburg of tutelage under
such fine and spiritual men as New
in, Rauch, Apple and Higbee.
Leaving Franklin and Marshall
he took a course in theology at
Union Theological Seminary, New
York, and his first charge was at
Fairfield, Adams county. While there
in his first year, he married Helen
Hoke, of an old Hanover family. He
resigned this charge to take a post
graduate course in Germany, and
returning, accepted a charge in the
Dutch Reformed congregation, at
Currytown, n. Y.
After five years there, his father,
the Rev. NJ. H. Sangree, was about
to take up missionary work on Alli-
son Hill, this city, where there
was no Reformed Church establish
ed, and he suggested that Henry
follow him at Steelton.
After six years service there he
was called to st. Marks Reformed
Church at Easton, Pa, and by this
time a family so large had fallen to
his care that the usually small salary
given to preachers hardly sufficed,
and he felt it necessary to seek some
additional employment in order to
take care of his flock. In this period
he spent his summers in the Pocono
Mountains, and was q pioneer in
developing the resources of this,
now, famous resort. He co-operated
with the Friends and his oldest
daughter there met and married DIR.
Frederick Sharpless, whose father Is
president of Haverford College.
Moving to Philadelphia, eventual
ly, the Rev. Sangree became assistant
pastor at the Presbyterian Church,
Forty-second and Walnut streets.
and in addition, became instructor
at Penn Charter in Bible study. The
rugged life in the Pocono each sum-
mer developed his six sons into
prime athletes, notably Carl San
gree, who was captain of both base
ball and football, while Paul San
gree was reckoned the strongest lad
who ever attended Penn Charter or
Haverford.
Just three weeks ago Mr.. San
gree came to Harrisburg to attend
the funeral of his mother, to whom
he was so much attached as he had
been the big boy" in Civil War
times when his father served under
General Thomas. The experience was
very depressing to him and may
have had something to do with his
sudden death. The funeral will be
held tomorrow at his late home.
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