Bicentennial - Muhlenberg Family, 1741 - 1942

File — Box: E-06, Folder: E:068

Identifier: E:068

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series includes materials relating to Allentown Seminary, Allentown Military and Collegiate Institute, Allentown Preparatory School, bicentennial/centennial celebrations, coeducation, The Muhlenberg Five, EVI, honorary degrees conferred, Middle Atlantic States evaluation, college seal and mace, S.A.T.C. (Student Army Training Corps), strategic plans, and much more.

Includes newspaper clippings, booklets, programs, catalogs, marketing brochures, calendars, fliers, legal documents, photos, sermons, and surveys.

Dates

1741 - 1942

Creator

Muhlenberg College (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research, with only a few very limited restrictions; access by appointment.

Extent

From the Collection: 50 Linear Feet (The bulk of the printed material (previously the vertical files) is contained in flip-top document cases. Textiles, memorabilia, and other realia is stored in appropriate lidded boxes.)

Additional Description

Detailed biography of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg and three sons; celebration of his landing in Philadelphia 1742; program booklet "For God and Country" pageant presented on campus 1942; US congressional participation; death of Jennifer Ann Muhlenberg; Levering writes to Governor Arthur H. James asking for federal support by Resolution 40 in US Senate marking bicentennial arrival of Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg in America 1942; Mentions publication of three volumes of "The Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg" (journals are not included in folder); U.S. Representative, Honorable Guy L. Moser, introduces (and is passed) a joint resolution to recognize the observance of the 200th anniversary of coming of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg to the American Colonies - June 1941; Published pamphlet "Proceedings in Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Landing of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg in Philadelphia, PA, 11/25/1742"; 1948 article in "Everybody's Weekly" May 23, 1948, on Pennsylvania Lutherans' Bicentennial features Henry Melchior Muhlenberg

Biography of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, D.D., (1711-1787) from birth in Prussia to arrival in America, settling in Philadelphia; promoter of Christian Education; great grandson was first president of the college; history of the college

"Of Words and Deeds" (The Muhlenbergs in America) details history of the Muhlenberg family: Anna Maria Weiser, John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg; Daughters - Eve Elizabeth, Margaret Henrietta, Maria Catherine, Maria Salome.

Article "Muhlenberg: Faith and Good Order" by Christa R. Klein on Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, The Patriarch of Lutheranism in America (article dated 1/07/1987). Correspondence regarding Ursinus College's Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg exhibit which opened 2/1993 at Ursinus.

Brochure "A Walking tour of Woodstock, Virginia, Founded 1752, A Time to Pray, A Time to Fight, Peter Muhlenberg." Brochure includes biographical background of Reverend John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg known as "the fighting parson of the American Revolution" who came to Woodstock in 1772 to serve as pastor of Lutheran congragation in Woodstock, VA.