From: The 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol.6, p.186 KELLAR, Ezra, educator, was born in Middleton Valley, Md., June 12, 1812. He was graduated from Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, in 1835, and became a minister of the Lutheran church in 1837. He was sent as a missionary to the western states, and was pastor of the Lutheran churches in Hagerstown, Md., and vicinity. He settled in Springfield, Ohio, in 1844, and aided in founding and developing Wittenberg college, an institution planned to supply the religious and educational want of the Lutheran church in the west. He was president of the institution from its opening as a seat of learning in 1845, and witnessed three years of steady progress in the affairs of the college. He received the degree of D.D. from Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, in 1845. He died at Springfield, Ohio, Dec. 29, 1848.