Syracuse, New York
The Post-Standard newspaper
Monday, December 6, 1937
Page 3, Columns 3 and 4

Rev. Dr. F. E. Oberlander, 71, Dies at N. Y. City Parsonage
United Lutheran Minister Former Pastor in Syracuse

The Rev. Dr. Fridolin E. Oberlander, former Syracuse clergyman in the United Lutheran Synod of New York for many years and pastor of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, New York City, since 1914, died Sunday at the parsonage of the church in Christopher Street. He was 71.

He was a son of the late Rev. Alexander Oberlander of Syracuse. Born at Mohawk Hill, Lewis County, Jan. 27, 1866, he moved to Syracuse with his parents in the early 1870s, and as a youngster was a Herald carrier boy in the old Second Ward.

Dr. Oberlander was educated in the Syracuse public schools and attended Hartwick Academy. Upon graduation, he studied for the ministry at Hartwick Theological Seminary, the oldest Lutheran seminary in the United States. He was ordained in 1892, and after acting as supply pastor for several churches, became pastor of Mount Tabor Lutheran Church in Syracuse.

In 1904 he accepted a call to St. Peter's Lutheran Church of Kitchener, then Berlin, Canada, where he served until September, 1914, when he went to St. John's Church in New York City.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him in 1913, by Hartwick Theological Seminary. He was a trustee of Hartwick College, Oneonta, and of Hartwick Theological Seminary in New York City.

Widely known in Central New York, Dr. Oberlander passed vacations at his summer home at Brewerton for the last 10 years. He underwent an operation at the Crouse-Irving Hospital a year ago, from which he never fully recovered.

Dr. Oberlander never married. Surviving him are two brothers, Alexander E. and Walter B. of Syracuse; two sisters, Mrs. George E. Potter of Kitchener, Ontario and Miss Meta Oberlander of New York City.

Funeral services will be conducted at 8 P.M. Tuesday at St. John's Church in New York City. The body will be brought to Syracuse Wednesday for brief services at 10:30 A.M. at the rooms of Traugott, Lohman and Frasier, funeral directors. The body will lie in state from 9 to 10:30 A.M. Burial will be at 11 A.M. in the Oberlander plot in Woodlawn Cemetery.