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Katharine Scherer Cronk
1877–1927
A writer of missionary literature and church pageants, this early 20th-century author helped tell stories of faith and service for readers at home. Her best-known surviving work is the 1921 book Under Many Flags, written with Elsie Singmaster.
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Under Many Flags
by Katharine Scherer Cronk, Elsie Singmaster
About the author
Born in 1877, she was part of the Scherer family of Marion, Virginia, a family closely connected to Lutheran religious life. Reliable records for her books list her as Katharine Scherer Cronk, and memorial records identify her more fully as Katharine Killinger Scherer Cronk.
She wrote works centered on Christian missions and church education. Under Many Flags was published in 1921 with Elsie Singmaster, and Missionary Methods for Church and Home appeared in 1927. A Virginia state history resource on her sister Laura Copenhaver also notes that the two sisters worked together on fiction, poetry, and many church pageants.
She died in 1927. While biographical details about her life are limited in the sources available online, the record that remains shows a writer deeply involved in religious education and in sharing missionary stories with a wider audience.