Dr Allen K Faust

1869 - 1953  (84 years)

• Name	Allen K Faust
  Title	Dr
  Birth	20 Aug 1869	Bernville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Sep 1953	Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 3]
  Burial	Greenwood Cemetery, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I7460	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Jacob L Faust,   b. 15 Nov 1818, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 28 Jul 1892, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Lydia Klein,   b. 17 Mar 1825, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 12 Feb 1889, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F2046	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Estelle Marden,   b. 30 Mar 1872, Piermont, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA d. 29 Jun 1950, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F10851	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Reading Eagle - Sep 14, 1953 (p. 19) Rev. Allen Faust, Berks Native, Dies The Rev. Dr. Allen K. Faust, 84, retired educator and missionary and native of Berks County, died last night in the Phoebe Deaconess Home, Allentown. He was born in Bernville, a son of the late Jacob L. and Lydia (Klein) Faust. He was a professor and dean of men at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C. from 1930to 1944. Earlier, he spent 30 years in Japan as a missionary for the Evangelical and Reformed Church. He received awards from the Japanese government for his work in education and his campaign to stamp out tuberculosis. He taught boys at North Japan College, an Evangelical-Reformed Church affiliate in Sendai. Dr. Faust was graduated from Franklin and Marshall College and Theological Seminary in Lancaster, and received his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1909. He and his wife moved to the Phoebe Home in 1946. Mrs. Faust, the former Mary Estella Marden, died in June, 1950. Surviving are two sons: Lloyd M. Faust of Arlington, Va., and Richard A. Faust of Falls Church, Va.; four grandchildren and a brother, John Faust of Reading. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in the Phoebe Home. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Allentown.

  
  

• Sources

  [S138] Ancestry.com, Website: Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.) (Reliability: 0). [S4] Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Year: 1870; Census Place: Jefferson, Berks, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1305; Page: 357B; Family History Library Film: 552804 (Reliability: 0). [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54990386/allen-k-faust.