1867 - 1892 Muhlenberg College: History of the College and a Record of its Men

Ochsenford, S. E. 1867 - 1892 Muhlenberg College: A Quarter-Centennial Memorial Volume, being a History of the College and a Record of its Men. Allentown, Pa.: Muhlenberg College, 1892. First Edition. [10872] Green cloth, bright gilt titles & device, clean binding, 9 x 6 inches, tight. Private bookplate, 584 clean pp., frontispiece plus many portrait plates. Very good. Hardcover. A history of the college presented via essay by many authors, and biographies of past and then-present faculty members. The "Record of Men" are accounts of students and graduates, and these are pp. 277-520. Originally founded in 1848 by the Reformed Lutheran minister Samuel K. Brobst as the Allentown Seminary, in 1867 it was renamed in honor of Henry Muhlenberg.