# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1872_S43
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B. By transfer to other Districts:
Pastor L. Crämer in Charlottesville, Va., accepted a call to Waverly, Bremer Co., Iowa, and has thus entered the Western District.

II. Entered into the Eastern District:
A. From the seminary:

Candidate Theophilus Maas, trained in the theoretical seminary at St. Louis, and called by the newly formed congregation at Troy, N. Y., was ordained and installed in the midst of his congregation on the 13th Sunday after Trinity, September 3, 1871, by Pastor P. Eirich, assisted by Pastor Seuel.

B. From other Districts:

After Pastor F. W. Oestermeier had received a call from the Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's congregation in Tonawanda, Erie Co., N. Y., and had accepted it with the permission of his congregation in Van Wert, O., he was installed in his new pastorate on the 13th Sunday after Trinity, September 3, 1871, by Pastor Johann Her.

III. Changes within the District:

1. Pastor Traugott Körner, who had received a regular call from the Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's congregation in Williamsburgh, N. Y., was inducted on the 23rd Sunday after Trinity, November 12, 1871, by Pastor Otto Hanser, assisted by Pastor Weisel Sr.

2. Pastor C. H. W. Stärker was called to be pastor [*Seelsorger*, shepherd of souls] of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Wolcottsburg, Erie Co., N. Y., and was installed there on the 25th Sunday after Trinity, November 26, 1871, by Pastor H. Kanold, assisted by Pastor Joh. Her.

3. After Pastor W. A. Frey, until then in Washington, D. C., had accepted a call from the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Rockville, Conn., he was solemnly ordained and installed in the midst of his congregation on Tuesday, January 9, 1872, by Pastor Otto Hanser, assisted by Pastor V. Both.

IV. Changes among the teachers:

1. Teacher J. H. Backhaus had to lay down his office at the parish school in Richmond, Va., on account of illness, and teacher H. Künker, trained at the seminary in Addison, has become his successor.

2. Teacher Albert Göhle took up his office at the parish school in Eden, Erie Co., N. Y., on April 7, 1872.