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    Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (born Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg; September 6, 1711 – October 7, 1787), was a German-born Lutheran clergyman and missionary...
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  • Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards (August 16, 1848 – September 28, 1935) was an American military officer who served in the Union Army during the American...
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    Muhlenberg (1753–1815), botanist Maria Salome Muhlenberg (1766–1827), youngest daughter of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg and wife of U..S Congressman Matthias Richards...
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    The Henry Melchior Muhlenberg House, also known as the John J. Schrack House, is an historic home which is located in Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania...
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    popularly as "the Trap", after which the town was named. In 1742, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, a Lutheran pastor, arrived in Trappe. The Schrack's oldest son...
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  • publisher Melchior Weiher (1574–1643), Polish nobleman Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, (1711-1787), Lutheran minister and missionary Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards...
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  • politician in Reading, Pennsylvannia Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards (1848-1935), American military officer Henry Muhlenberg (mayor), American politician This...
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    Lutheran church body in North America. With the encouragement of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711–1787), the Ministerium was founded at a Church Conference...
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    Henry Augustus Muhlenberg, The Life of Major-General Peter Muhlenberg: Of the Revolutionary Army (1849). online Theodore G. Tappert, "Henry Melchior Muhlenberg...
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    church began in 1743 following the arrival of Lutheran minister Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, who emigrated from Germany in 1742. After a severe storm on February...
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    Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (17 November 1753 – 23 May 1815) was an American clergyman and botanist. The son of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, he was born...
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    appearance during Muhlenberg's occupancy. Muhlenberg was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna Maria (Weiser) and Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg. His father...
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    doctor in Germany), Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the Patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, and his son, Frederick Muhlenberg (the first Speaker of...
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    forge near Lancaster. An active lay Lutheran and associate of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, he donated the land on which the Lutheran church in Manheim,...
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    city, Pennsylvania". Commissioners: Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, John M. Buckalew, George Dallas Albert, Sheldon Reynolds...
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    Pennsylvania Ministerium established in 1748 in Philadelphia by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. The seminary had an enrollment of 275 graduate students, with...
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    married Maria Salome Muhlenberg ("Sally"), then at age 15, on May 8, 1782. She was the youngest child of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. Among their children...
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    founders, including Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Frederick Marsteller, John Nicholas Cressman, Anthony Heilman (Hallman), Jacob Miller, Henry Haas, and George...
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    school had internal political problems in the 1760s, but Pastor Henry Melchior Muhlenberg resolved them. The arrival of John Christopher Kunze from Germany...
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    grandson of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711–1787, known as the father of Lutheranism in America) and a grandson of Frederick Muhlenberg (1750–1801),...
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    Encyclopedia. 1905. "Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg at Find a Grave The...
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    Ripley's version credits the story to an alleged letter by Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg published in Halle in 1887. The legend has a long history and led...
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    liturgy and hymns. Although the eighteenth-century missionary Henry Melchior Muhlenberg had hoped for the day when Lutherans would be "one church [with]...
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    Germany. Schrack was able to convince Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg to relocate to this area. Muhlenberg was the founder of the Lutheran church in the...
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  • christlichen Volk erzählt (1884) Heinrich Melchior Mühlenbergs Leben und Wirken (1887) Life and Times of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1887) This article incorporates...
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    Sons. ISBN 0-945726-84-8. LCCN 02003420. Tappert, Theodore G. "Henry Melchior Muhlenberg and the American Revolution." Church History 11.4 (1942): 284-301...
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  • pianos manufacturer Henry William Stiegel – glassmaker and ironmaster and an active lay Lutheran and associate of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Chris Strachwitz...
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    account of the end of Regina's captivity was told by the Reverend Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, patriarch of the Lutheran church in the United States, in his...
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    Monument (1916), Old Graveyard, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Reverend Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Monument (1917), Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia....
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    ISBN 0-9674103-0-4. Commission members: Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards, John M. Buckalew, George Dallas Albert, Sheldon Reynolds...
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