Among various ancestors, the most prominent families are the descendants of Johann Adam Roder (1669?-1721) and Anna Katharina Diebert Tauber (1670-1751) of Switzerland and Mutterstadt, Bavaria; Casper Rotter/ Rader (1732-1812) and Regina Gerhardt (1746-1816) of Berks County, Pennsylvania and Wythe County, Virginia; and George Rader (1750-1815) of Pennsylvania and Highland County, Ohio.

"Henry Rader died in the Civil War" contains his ancestors, his wifes ancestors, and his children and their descendants. The majority of the book is set in Greene County Tennessee from 1800 thruthe 1940s

Excerpt from A History of the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (1727-1819): Part XXIX of a Narrative and Critical History Prepared at the Request of the Pennsylvania-German History In 1849, the Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff published in his Kirchenfreund, Vol. II, a series of three articles on the History of the German Church in America, in which he traced the origin and growth of the Reformed and Ln theran churches through three successive periods.vi Preface. But the man who may well be called the father of Re formed history in America was the Rev. Dr. Henry Har baugh. He not only secured the manuscripts and docu ments of Dr. Mayer for the use of the church and added to them many others which he collected himself, but upon the basis of these documents he wrote two splendid vol umes, which told the story of Reformed history in America with such real enthusiasm and beauty of style, that they have always remained sources of inspiration for later students. They were: Schlatter's Life and Trav els, Philadelphia, 1857, and The Fathers of the Re formed Church, Vol. I, Philadelphia, 1857. In 1872, Dr. Harbaugh added a second volume to the Fathers of the church. In these volumes the lives and labors of the most important German Reformed ministers in Amer ica were set forth. It remained for a former president of the Pennsylvania German Society, the late Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Dubbs, to write the first connected history in his Historic Manual of the Reformed Church in the United States, Lancaster, 1885. Later he corrected and completed the story in his contribution to the American Church History Series, Vol. VIII, New York, 1895, and especially in his beauti fully illustrated and well-written work The Reformed Church in Pennsylvania, published by our Society in 1902 as part IX of its Narrative and Critical History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.