“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  Western 
Historical Company.   1879.


REV. FRED’K W. A. DENNINGER, Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of 
Farmington; P. O. Johnson’s Creek; born Oct. 19, 1811, in Berlin, Prussia, where he 
was educated and studied theology; in 1862, was sent to America by the Evangelical 
Association for Missions under the German emigrants of North America; became 
connected with the Wisconsin Synod and was stationed at Edison, Washington Co., 
where he was Pastor of four congregations; in October, 1867, he took charge of the 
Churches in Herman, Dodge Co., and Hartford, in Washington Co., living in the 
former town; in 1874, he moved to Farmington, Jefferson Co., and took the pastorate 
of this Church; in 1877, he took charge of the school and still teaches in it in place of 
his son, who has removed.  Married Miss Augusta C. Walter, of Berlin, Sept. 28, 
1834; has seven children – Maria M., Adolph E., Gustav F., Johannes B., Paul G., 
Hermann D. and A. Martin S.




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