Muhleman, Robert W
physician, surgeon, business man, was born May 5, 1853, in Hannibal, Ohio. He attended the Baldwin university of Berea, Ohio, and the Pulte Medical college of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a successful physician and surgeon of Bellaire, Ohio. He has been superintendent of the Hannibal schools; president of the Crystal Window Glass company of Bellaire, Ohio; president of the Seal Glass Mandolin company; vicepresident of the Ohio Valley Telephone company.
MUHLENBERG, FRANCIS SAMUEL, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He moved to Ohio; became a member of the legislature of that state; and was a representative from Ohio in the twentieth congress. He died in 1832 in Pickaway county, Ohio.
MUHLENBERG, FREDERICK AUGUS- TUS, clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 25, 1818, in Lancaster, Pa.
He has been professor in Franklin college from 1838 to 1850; of Greek in Pennsylvania college from 1850 till 1867; first president of Muhlenberg college, Pa., from 1867 till 1876, and professor of the Greek language and literature in the university of Pennsylvania since 1876. He has published his Inaugural Address as president of Muhlenberg college; Semi-Centennial Address at Pennsylvania college, and other addresses. MUHLENBERG, FREDERICK AUGUS- TUS CONRAD, clergyman, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1750, in Trappe, Pa. In 1773 he was pastor of Christ's church, New York city, retiring from the ministry in 1779, when he entered the continental congress as the representative of the Pennsylvania Germans. He was the presiding officer of the assembly in his own state, and speaker of the first and third congresses. He died June 4, 1801, in Lancaster, Pa.
MUHLENBERG, GOTTHILF HENRY ERNST, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 11, 1753, in Trappe, Pa. He was a lutheran divine of Philadelphia, famous as a botanist in his day; and the author of Cantalogus Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis; and English and German Lexicon and Grammar. He died May 23, 1815, in Lancaster, Pa.
MUHLENBERG, HENRY AUGUSTUS, clergyman, congressman, was born May 13, 1782, in Lancaster, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to congress in 1828, and served from 1829 until 1838, when he resigned his seat and accepted the mission to Austria, about that time created. In 1835 he was the candidate of a portion of the democratic party for governor; and in 1838 was appointed minister to Austria. He died Aug. 12, 1844, in Reading, Pa.
MUHLENBERG, HENRY AUGUSTUS, JR., lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in July, 1823, in Reading, Pa.
He was elected to the Pennsylvania state senate in 1848, of which body he at once became a leading member. He wrote a Life of General Muhlenberg. He was elected a member of the thirty-third congress. He died Jan. 9, 1854, in Washington. MUHLENBERG, JOHN PETER GA- BRIEL, bishop, soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 1, 1746, in Trappe, Pa. In 1774 he was elected to the house of burgesses of Virginia. He raised the eighth Virginia regiment, and was made its colonel. In 1777 he was made brigadier-general. After the war he was elected vice-president of Pennsylvania; was a presidential elector in 1797; and was a member of the first, third and sixth congresses from Pennsylvania. He was United States senator in 1801, which office he resigned in 1802. He was appointed supervisor of revenue for Pennsylvania in that year; and was appointed collector of the port of Philadelphia.
Muhlenberg college was named after him.
He died Oct. 1, 1807, near Philadelphia.
MUHLENBERG, WILLIAM AUGUS- TUS, clergyman, author, poet, was born Sept. 16, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a distinguished episcopal clergyman, rector of the Church of the Holy Communion in New York city in 1846-77. He was the founder of St. Luke's hospital, and organized the first protestant sisterhood in America. His hymn, I Would not Live Alway, is widely known. He was the author of Church Poetry; Music of the Church; People's Psalter; Evangelical Catholic Papers; Christ and the Bible;.
Family Prayers; Letters on Protestant Sisterhoods; St. Johnland; and Ideal and Actual. He died April 8, 1877, in New York city.