# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1973_S414
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Name; WILLIAM HENRY KOHN

September 27, 1915

Birth date

Birth place: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Can.

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Father's name:

Marian Ruth nee Luenser

College (grad): Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wis.

Number of

Seminary (grad); Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo.

Number of vears in Svnod, Post grad,

as member of congr,: 44 as clergyman: 33
confirmed
Year of Ordination: 1940 D.D.

Pastorates held (beginning with earliest):

Congregation

Trinity, Merrill, Wis. (Unordained Assistant)

Bethlehem, Baltimore, Md.

Bethlehem, Baltimore, Md. - Pastor

- Assistant Pastor

Trinity, Mt. Rainier, Md. - Pastor

Redeemer, Hyattsville, Md. - Pastor

Other full time positions held (begin with earliest):

Position Employer
Chaplain - 8th Infantry Division U. S. Army
Full-Time District President Southeas

Address: 9018 Maple Grove Drive

William L. Kohn

hildren: 3
Year: 1935
Year: 1939

& honorary degrees
(type and institution):

Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Years (dates)

1939-1940

1940-1943

1946-1954
1954-1956
1956-1963

1943-1946
1963-1967
1967-Present

Other synodical offices held (begin with earlier, but list no more than three):

Position (officer, board, or commission)
Member, Synod's Board of Directors

Chairman, Council of District Presidents ==
Member, Synod's Council of Administrators

Years (dates

1959-1963
1966-1967 _
1967-Pres

Other District offices held (begin with earlier, but list no more than three):

Position (officer, board,or commission)
Supplement Editor, Southeastern District News

Member, Southeastern District Mission Board.
President, Southeastern District (Part-time basis)

Years (dates)

1950-1951

1951-1954
1954-1959

Other significant service or experience (e.g.,in community, government, or interchurch

affairs). Give one line summary or designation for each.

Type ot Service

Lutheran Immigration Service Committee hm j

Member, Bd. of Directors, Lutheran World Relief _

Convention Essayist

Years (dates)
1960-1967
1967-Present

Northwest (i988) He 5St 1 6583 at antic (1972)