ISAAC J. ROSENBERGER, a retired farmer and a well known minister in the Church of the Brethren, is a man of considerable literary. ability, and was for a period of twenty-eight years a traveling evangelist. He was born April 20, 1842, near Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio, and is a son of. Daniel and Elizabeth (Hartsough) Rosenberger.

Isaac J. Rosenberger was six years old when his parents removed to Hancock County, where his mother died four years later, and here- his education was obtained in the district schools near his home. He taught in the district schools of that locality for about ten years, and during the war taught near Dayton Ohio, for a period of three years. Subsequent to his marriage with Mary Ann Workman, a daughter of Morgan Workman, who was a retired farmer and stock dealer residing in Wooster, Ohio, he engaged in agricultural pursuits in Hancock County for one year. He then engaged in farming on a tract of land near Loudenville, Ashland County, Ohio, for four years, after which he returned to Hancock County, where he continued his residence for eleven years. In the spring of 1883 Mr. Rosenberger came to Covington, Ohio, where he and his estimable wife still reside in a comfortable home on North High Street. Here he purchased a tract of 260 acres in Newton Township, on which he has never lived. After coming to Covington, Mr. Rosenberger took up church work and became an evangelist in the Church of the Brethren, otherwise known as the Dunkards, and for a period of twenty-eight years traveled throughout this section of the country, holding many successful meetings, his converts numbering about two thousand. Mr. Rosenberger has not devoted his entire attention to his church work, but also has literary tastes and leanings, having compiled and published a book, entitled "Bible Readings and Bible Studies," and his volume on "Modern Spiritualism" is now in the hands of the publishers. He has also contributed largely to tract work, has written a number of articles on divorce and remarriage, among them being a treatise against divorce and remarriage. Mr. Rosenberger is still a minister of the local Church of the Brethren, of Covington, Ohio.