Daniel Kloss
18 Mar 1830 - 1912
bornBeavertown, Pennsylvania, USA
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BiographyCame to Tempe in 1891.Minister, educator.
His education included studies at the University of Michigan, the Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the Union Theological Seminary in New York city. On 13 May 1860, he was ordained a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran church, and for 17 years ministered in New Berlin, Union county and in Lykens, Dauphin county, both in Pennsylvania. In 1877, he moved to Highland, Arkansas, where he was pastor of the Congregational Church for 14 years. During that time, he also received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Highland College, where he also served as Regent of the college and Chairman of the German and French departments.
He began operating a 160-acre farm under the Tempe Canal, c1891. In 1892 he organized the First Congregational Church of Tempe, and served
as its minister until c1900.
He was Territorial Treasurer, and a member of the Territorial Normal School Board of Education, 1893-1897, and twice served as president of the board. He served as a director of the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company, and was President of the Kansas Society, a valley-wide organization of Kansas immigrants. He owned two fruit ranches in Tempe.
Lived at Forest and E. 6th Street, c1895-1911.
Federal census (Tempe), 1900
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Hopkins and Thomas, The ASU Story, p. 116
Tempe CD, 1906-1911
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