In his residence 403 N. Ashland Avenue, Professor Emil Hering passed away yesterday after an illness of several months followed by a fatal attack of pneumonia. The deceased was born in Stargard, Pommerania on June 19th, 1827, had studied Theology in Halle and Berlin and was then active for several years in Potsdam as court-preacher. In the year 1866 he emigrated to America. Here he was first Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish in Tompkinsville, Staten Island, became then Professor at the German Preacher's Seminary in Bloomfield, N. J., from where he returned in the seventies to Germany. The year 1882 already found him back in America as Pastor of the Evangelical Parish in Carlstadt, N. J.; in 1888 he transferred to New York and from there he accepted a call in 1893 as Professor of the German Evangelical Lutheran Seminary here, to which he belonged till he fell sick.

His body will be brought to Carlstadt, N. J. for interment to find his last rest at the cemetary of his former Parish. He leaves a widow and five children.