Mosheim Society minute books, 1790-1791, 1831.

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Mosheim Society minute books, 1790-1791, 1831.

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Original handwritten minute book of the Mosheim Society (Mosheimische Gesellschaft) of Philadelphia, dated 30 January 1790 to ca. July 1791, along with a later handwritten copy of the Society's minutes (in 3 volumes), covering the period 12 September 1789 to 4 August 1792, and probably dating from around 1831. The copy includes, at the beginning, a list of members during the period covered, with some biographical notes; and a brief description of the Society in English. The list is dated 24 April 1831, and appears to be initialed: J.S. The members include: Philip Derrick, John K. Helmuth, Marcus Kuhl, George Lochman, Frederick Smith, Andrew Geyer, Christian Endress, Henry Muhlenberg, Charles Schaeffer, Adam Seybert, Jacob Senn, Jacob Wack, Jacob Wagner, Conrad Zentler, and Isaac Wambold. The original minute book is written in multiple hands; among those who sign as secretary pro tempore are Derrick, Kuhl, Lochman, Smith, Geyer, Endress, and Schaeffer. It includes a draft of the constitution of the Society (Regierungs-Form; Verfassung) that was revised and adopted at the meeting of 5 February 1791. The copy of the minutes is written entirely in a single hand, except for the prefatory material, which is in a different hand. The copy includes occasional cross-references and parenthetical remarks. In the time period covered by the original minute book, the content of the copy differs noticeably from the original, including omissions of passages and variations in wording. Transcribed documents include a speech given by Smith at a public gathering in honor of the two-year anniversary of the Society's founding, on 1 August 1791.

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German Society of Pennsylvania, Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library

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Schaeffer, Charles E. (Charles Edmund), 1867-1966

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Endress, Christian, 1775-1827

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Smith, Frederick, 1773-1830.

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Kuhl, Marcus Hillegas, fl. 1786-1792.

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Lochman, Johann Georg, 1773-1826

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Born in Philadelphia of German immigrants, Lochman completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Pennyslvania in 1789, and became licensed as a Lutheran clergyman in 1794. He served as pastor in Lebanon, Pa. until August 1815; and then in Harrisburg, Pa., from September 1815 until his death. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was awarded to him by Allegheny College in 1819. Having himself been privately tutored for the ministry by the German-born Lutheran pastor Justus Henry Chri...

Derrick, Philip

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Mosheim Society (Philadelphia)

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Founded by a group of young men of German heritage in Philadelphia around 1 August 1789, for the purpose of promoting the German language and in order for the members to apply themselves in speaking and writing German; named after the Lutheran theologian and church historian Johann Lorenz von Mosheim. Many of the members were graduates of the University of Pennsylvania; several were later pastors of German congregations in Pennsylvania. The Society had a total of 44 members from the time of its ...

Geyer, Andrew, 1772-1839

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