South Jersey Heritage: A Social, Economic and Cultural History - R. Craig Koedel
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
R. Craig Koedel was born in 1927 in Tarentum, an industrial suburb of
Pittsburgh. He was educated at Wheaton College (Illinois), Pittsburgh
Theological Seminary, the University of Pittsburgh, and Temple University,
and was ordained to the ministry by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). After
three years as chaplain in the U. S. Air Force, the author served several
churches in Pennsylvania. He was appointed to the faculty of Atlantic
Community College (New Jersey) in 1966, where he taught courses in History,
Religion, and Philosophy. He was for a time an Assistant Dean of Instruction
and department chairperson. He remained at the College until his retirement
in 1992. The writer's works of history include South Jersey Heritage: A
Social, Economic, and Cultural History; God's Vine in This Wilderness:
Religion in South Jersey to 1800; and articles on local history and education
for more than a dozen historical and professional journals and newspapers.
He was the compiler of New Jersey Vessels, 1784-1929, Philadelphia Maritime
Museum and was research historian for the Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History
Center. He and his wife Barbara, who has published works on Richard Somers,
reside in Pittsburgh.
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