# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1884_S115
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Annual Reports of the District Presidents. Illinois District. 1884.   115

Pastors E. A. Sieving and F. W. Schlechte by call into the Central
District.

Pastors C. Baumann and F. H. Siebrandt by call into the Wisconsin
District.

Pastor M. Heyer by call into the Minnesota District.

Pastor W. Achenbach by call into the Western District.

Pastor J. Kipple laid down his office because of illness and later
moved into the Nebraska District.

B. by declaration of withdrawal:

Pastor S. Liese. In his declaration of withdrawal he testifies that
while he agrees with us in doctrine, he "can not and will not share
in the manner of the struggle against Christians outside our own
Synodical fellowship." The negotiations conducted with him were
without success.

Changes among the teachers.

I. Entered the district

A. from our seminary at Addison:

1. Mr. teaching candidate A. F. Ahner, called by the congregation
at Colehour.

2. Mr. teaching candidate H. Charlé, called by the congregation at
Kensington.

3. Mr. teaching candidate F. J. Rieck, called by the Jacobi
congregation in Chicago.

4. Mr. teaching candidate H. Zastrow, called by the congregation
at Chester.

5. Mr. teaching candidate W. Schlake, called by the congregation
at Belleville.

B. from other districts:

1. Teacher O. E. Gotsch, formerly at New Melle, Mo., followed a
call from the congregation at Staunton.

2. Teacher H. T. Bollmann, formerly at Columbus, Ind., followed a
call from the congregation at Dundee.

3. Teacher A. H. J. Abraham, formerly at Altenburg, Mo., followed
a call from Emmanuel congregation in Chicago.

4. Teacher C. E. Marr, formerly at Bremen, Ind., has accepted the
call of the congregation at Minden.

5. Teacher J. G. Röcker, formerly at St. Charles, Mo., followed the
call of the congregation at York Centre.

6. Teacher G. Bartelt, until now at Plymouth, Wis., took over a
school of Emmanuel congregation in Chicago.