SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE
GERMANS IN MARYLAND
Thirty-First Report
EDITED BY KLAUS G. WUST
1963
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
MEMBERS AND OFFICERS ............
4
THE REPORT ...............
7
THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOCIETY:
ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS BY D®. DIETER CUNZ ....
11
PROGRAM OF THE ANNIVERSARY OBSERVANCE ....
19
WARTBURG: DREAM AND REALITY OF THE NEW GERMANY IN TENNESSEE
By KLAUS G. WUST ..........
21
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE GENERAL GERMAN ORPHAN HOME IN
BALTIMORE, 1863-1963
By OTTO H. FRANKE ..........
47
AN INTERESTING BARON DE KALB LETTER
By A. E. ZUCKER ...........
59
THE DIARY OF JACOB ENGELBRECHT: CHRONICLE OF LIFE IN FREDERICK,
MARYLAND, 1819-1878
By WILLIAM ROGERS QUYNN ........
63
THE SURVIVAL OF GERMAN DIALECTS AND CUSTOMS IN THE SHENAN-
DOAH VALLEY
By JOHN STEWART and ELMER L. SMITH .....
66
THE GERMAN ELEMENT IN COLONIAL GEORGIA
By GEORGE F. JONES ..........
71
JOURNAL OF TRAVEL IN COLONIAL AMERICA, MAY-JULY 1734
By GEORG FRIEDRICH VON RECK (transl. and ed. by GEORGE
F. JONES) ............
83
NOTES AND COMMENTS ............
91
NECROLOGY
...............
94
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MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE
HISTORY OF GERMANS IN MARYLAND
1963
ALBERT P. BACKHAUS
BERNARD G. BEYER
HARVEY C. BICKEL
GEORGE A. BINGLEY
VICTOR M. BIRELY
WILLIAM C. BIRELY
RUDOLF W. BIRNBACH
KARL BRAND
HERBERT M. BRUNE, JR.
HELMUT F. CASCORBI
D®. EDWARD A. DOEHLER
ADOLF C. DREYER
REV. EDWARD F. ENGELBERT
EDWARD F. ENGELBERT, J®.
ERWIN H. ENGELBERT
GEORGE A. ENGELBERT
REV. FRITZ O. EVERS
HERBERT E. FANKHANEL
OTTO J. FINGER
KARL FLORENZ
OTTO H. FRANKE
GEORGE C. FRISCH
ARNO R. HABERKORN, S®.
ARNO R. HABERKORN, J®.
PROF. LUDWIG HAMMERSCHLAG
CHARLES E. HENNIGHAUSEN
HENRY R. HERGENROEDER
PROF. CHRISTOPH A. HERING
GUY T. HOLLYDAY
KENNETH HORVATH
D®. HENRY JACOBS
PROF. HAROLD S. JANTZ
CURT A. H. JESCHKE
PROF. GEORGE F. JONES
OTTO H. KAPPUS
GEORGE KLEY
D®. WERNER A. KOHLMEYER
HERBERT F. KUENNE
HENRY O. LAMPE
OTTO LEONHARDT
D®. RICHARD LINDENBERG
DR
. ERNEST G. MARR
PROF. WILLIAM H. McCLAIN
HON.
THEODORE R. McKELDIN
ADOLF MEISTER
D®. KURT G. F. MOELLER
EDWIN C. MUHLY
CARL L. NITZE
ALVIN P. OHLER
PROF. OTTO ORTMANN
BERNARD J. PETER
THEODORE V. PETER
JOHN W. PFEIFER
D®. ADOLF H. PICKER
KIRVAN H. PIERSON
HERMAN PRAG
PROF. AUGUSTUS J. PRAHL
FRANCIS W. PRAMSCHUFER, S®.
PROF.
MORGAN H. PRITCHETT
ARTHUR C. REICHELT, J®.
WILLIAM C. ROGERS
CHARLES H. ROLOSON
EMILIO O. ROXIN
D®. RICHARD SALLET
GEORGE F. SANDER
HERBERT W. SCHAEFER
HENRY L. SANDLASS
CARL F. C. SCHLEUNES
KARL W. SCHLITZ
C. WILLIAM SCHNEIDEREITH
EDWIN SCHOENRICH
PROF. S. A. SCHULZ
PROF. EDWARD H. SEHRT
LEONARD A. SIEMS
FREDERICK J. SINGLEY, J®.
A. RUSSELL SLAGLE
ROBERT LEE SLINGLUFF, J®.
WILLIAM T. SNYDER, J®.
PROF. TAYLOR STARCK
CHARLES F. STEIN, J®.
CHARLES F. STEIN, III
WILLIAM STEINBACH
HENRY J. THAU
ARTHUR J. TRAUTNER
AUGUST VOGELER
PROF. ERNST O. VON SCHWERDTNER
AUGUST H. WAGENER
MAJOR W. H. WEBER
D®. RICHARD D. WEIGLE
PROF. JOHN R. WESKE
KLAUS G. WUST
CONRAD ZIEGET, J®.
PROF. A. E. ZUCKER
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CORRESPONDING MEMBERS
PROFESSOR KARL
J. ARNDT ............... Clark University, Worcester
PROFESSOR PRESTON
A. BARBA.
...........Muhlenberg College, Allentown
PROFESSOR ERWIN
G. GUDDE. ............University of California, Berkeley
PROFESSOR ERICH
P. HOFACKER ........... Washington University, St. Louis
PROFESSOR AUGUST
C. MAHR. ............Ohio State University, Columbus
PROFESSOR HARRY
W. PFUND.
............Haverford College, Haverford
PROFESSOR HENRY
A. POCHMANN ......... University of Wisconsin, Madison
DR
. FELIX REICHMANN .................. Cornell University, Ithaca
PROFESSOR RICHARD
H. SHRYOCK.
........American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
DEAN CARL WITTKE
.
.................... Western Reserve University, Cleveland
DR
. RALPH C. WOOD ....................Lehigh University, Bethlehem
HONORARY MEMBER
PROFESSOR DIETER CUNZ
.
..........Ohio State University
OFFICERS
OTTO
H. FRANKE .................................... President
PROFESSOR AUGUSTUS
J. PRAHL ........................ First Vice-President
REV
. EDWARD F. ENGELBERT.
......................... Second Vice-President
CHARLES
F. STEIN, JR. ................................ Treasurer
PROFESSOR MORGAN
H. PRITCHETT.
.................... Secretary
PROFESSOR HAROLD
S. JANTZ,
Chairman
ALBERT
P. BACKHAUS
CHRISTOPH
A. HERING
A. RUSSELL SLAGLE
WILLIAM
T. SNYDER
KLAUS
G. WUST
Executive Committee
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OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE
GERMANS IN MARYLAND, 1886-1963
PRESIDENTS
REV
. JOHN GOTTLIEB MORRIS. .... .1886-1895
REV
. BENJAMIN SADTLER. ........ .1896-1900
LOUIS P. HENNIGHAUSEN .......... 1901-1906
DR
. ERNEST J. BECKER. ......... . .1907-1911
LOUIS P. HENNIGHAUSEN ..........1912-1917
GEORGE PRECHTEL
................1918-1929
THOMAS FOLEY HISKY
.
........... 1930-1936
PROF
. WILLIAM KURRELMEYER. ... .1937-1951
ROBERT LEE SLINGLUFF
, JR. .......1951-1956
PROF
.
A. E. ZUCKER. .............1956-1962
OTTO
H. FRANKE ................ 1962-
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENTS
LOUIS P. HENNIGHAUSEN .......... 1886-1895
REV
. HENRY SCHEIB. .............1896-1897
LOUIS P. HENNIGHAUSEN. ....... ..1897-1900
GEORGE
W. GAIL. ................1901-1905
PROF
. OTTO FUCHS ............... 1906-1907
PROF
. HENRY WOOD. .............1907-1908
GEORGE PRECHTEL
.
...............1909-1911
DR
. ERNEST J. BECKER. ...........1911-1917
HENRY
G. HILKEN. ............. .1918-1937
J. GEORGE MOHLHENRICH. ........1938-1940
PROF
.
A. E. ZUCKER. ............. 1940-1956
DR
. ERNEST G. SCHWIEBERT. ......1956-1958
PROF
.
E. O. VON SCHWERDTNER. ... .1958-1962
PROF
.
A. J. PRAHL
.1962-
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENTS
CHARLES WEBER
, JR.. ............ .1886-1887
PHILIP AUGUST ALBRECHT
.
........1888-1889
PROF
. OTTO FUCHS. ..............1889-1890
REV
. HENRY SCHEIB. .............1891-1895
LOUIS P. HENNIGHAUSEN .. ......1896-1897
EDWARD
F. LEYH. ................1897-1901
PROF
. OTTO FUCHS. ..............1902-1905
PROF
. HENRY WOOD. .............1906-1907
REV
. FR. PH. HENNIGHAUSEN. .... .1907-1911
GEORGE PRECHTEL
................1912-1917
LOUIS C
. SCHNEIDEREITH.......... 1918-1922
C. OTTO SCHOENRICH ........... .1923-1929
THEODORE
G. KRUG. ..............1930-1937
LEWIS KURTZ
.
.................. .1938-1951
PROF
. ARNO C. SCHIROKAUER. .... .1951-1954
REV
. FRITZ O. EVERS. ............ .1955-1959
REV
. EDWARD F. ENGELBERT. ..... .1959-
TREASURERS
EDWARD NIEMANN
.
..............1886-1888
ROBERT
M. ROTHER. ............ .1889-1929
CONRAD
C. RABBE ............... 1930-1937
CHARLES
F. STEIN, JR. ............ 1938-
SECRETARIES
REV
. FR. PH. HENNIGHAUSEN. .... .1886-1905
J. LEONARD HOFFMAN. ...........1905-1911
J. CONRAD UHLIG. ................1911-1913
DR
. JOHANNES MATTERN. .........1913-1917
ANDREW
H. METTEE. .............1918-1933
CHARLES
H. MIEGEL. .............1934-1944
PROF
. DIETER CUNZ. .............1944-1956
PROF
. AUGUSTUS J. PRAHL. .......1956-1962
PROF
. MORGAN H. PRITCHETT ...... 1962-
CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
DR
. LEWIS H. STEINER. ..........1886-1891
EDWARD
F. LEYH. ................1892-1893
CHARLES
F. RADDATZ ............. 1893-1901
REV
. EDWARD HUBER. ............1901-1906
LOUIS P. HENNIGHAUSEN. .........1907-1911
KARL
A. M. SCHOLTZ. ............1912-1941
CARL
L. NITZE. ................ .1942-1949
R. LEE SLINGLUFF, JR. ............ 1949-1951
LEWIS KURTZ
.................... 1951-1954
OTTO
H. FRANKE. ................1954-1962
PROF
. HAROLD S. JANTZ. ..........1962-
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE 1925-1963
C. WILLIAM SCHNEIDEREITH .......1925-1926
PROF
. WILLIAM KURRELMEYER. ... .1926-1937
ANDREW
H. METTEE .............. 1926-1929
J. GEORGE MOHLHENRICH. ....... .1926-1938
LEWIS KURTZ
.
.................. .1926-1938
DR
. HANS FROELICHER. .......... .1929-1930
PROF
. JOHN C. HEMMETER. ...... .1930-1931
CHARLES
F. STEIN, JR. ............ 1936-1938
CARL
W. PRIOR. ................ .1937-1939
REV
. JOHN G. HACKER, S.J........1988-1946
DR
. ERNEST J. BECKER. ...........1939-1949
R. LEE SLINGLUFF, J®. ............ 1939-1951
REV
. FRITZ O. EVERS .............. 1942-1955
WALTER
E. BEUCHELT ............ 1944-1951
HERBERT
W. SCHAEFER. .......... .1949-1951
REV
. EDWARD F. ENGELBERT ....... 1949-1953
PROF
. AUGUSTUS J. PRAHL. ...... .1951-1956
WILLIAM
T. SNYDER, JR. .......... 1951-
HERBERT
F. KUENNE ............. 1953-1958
PROF
. WILLIAM H. McCLAIN. .... .1955-1956
KARL
F. STEINMANN ............ 1956-1958
PROF
.
O. E. VON SCHWERDTNER .... 1956-1957
KARL
W. SCHLITZ ................ 1957-1958
PROF
. HAROLD S. JANTZ ........... 1958-
A. RUSSELL SLAGLE............... 1958-
KLAUS
G. WUST. ............... .1958-
ALBERT
P. BACKHAUS ............. 1962-
CHRISTOPH
A. HERING. .......... .1962-
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THE REPORT
The Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland is once more
issuing a Report, the Thirty-First, in our series. For over eight decades
the Society has held to its original purpose of publishing and preserving
historical material related to the immigration and activities of Americans
of German descent not only in the Free State of Maryland but also in the
adjoining states. In recent years the articles and monographs contributed
by scholars and interested laymen have frequently reached beyond the
limits of Maryland's borders and have assumed somewhat of a national
scope.
At the Seventy-fifth Annual Meeting and Dinner on February 24, 1961,
the members expressed the strong desire to hold an appropriate celebration
to mark the 75th Anniversary of the existence of the Society, the only one
of its kind in the United States. An Anniversary Committee, consisting
of William T. Snyder, Pastor Fritz O. Evers, Otto H. Franke, Francis W.
Pramschufer, Sr., and C. William Schneidereith made preparations for such
a celebration in the Fall of 1961. On October 8, 1961 the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary Celebration was held in the Auditorium of the Maryland
Historical Society to which the general public was invited. After Pastor
Edward F. Engelbert spoke the Invocation, the Honorable George L. Rad-
cliffe, President of the Maryland Historical Society, commended, in glowing
words of praise, the Society for its work in collecting, preserving and pub-
lishing material relative to the activities of Americans of German descent.
Then Professor A. E. Zucker, our President, introduced Dieter Cunz,
Chairman of the Department of German, Ohio State University, who gave
a most stimulating and informative address on "The Germans in Mary-
land." Dr. Cunz, author of The Maryland Germans (Princeton, 1948),
was "For many years the inspiration and the prime mover of the activities
and growth of the Society." In recognition of his never-ending efforts and
his wholehearted devotion to the Society for the History of the Germans
in Maryland, Professor Cunz was elected in 1958 to lifetime membership
in the Society.
Since the publication of the last Report the guest speakers at the
Annual Meetings of the Society were:
1960 Professor Augustus J. Prahl (University of Maryland)
"Alexander von Humboldt"
1961 Charles F. Stein (Author of The History of Calvert County)
"German Heritage of Colonial Maryland"
1962 Professor A. E. Zucker (University of Maryland)
"General de Kalb and His Time"
1963 Professor George F. Jones (University of Maryland)
"The Colonial Germans in Georgia"
Several Reports in the past have been made possible through generous
contributions on the part of members of the Society. The following
members of the Society, in response to a drive for funds, contributed money
in support of the publication of this Report: A. P. Backhaus, W. C. Birely,
Prof. D. Cunz, Pastor E. F. Engelbert, Pastor F. O. Evers, E. F. Fadum,
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Prof. L. Hammerschlag, Prof. C. A. Hering, H. O. Lampe, Dr. R. Linden-
berg, Hon. T. R. McKeldin, A. Meister, A. J. Prahl, F. W. Pramschufer,
W. C. Rogers, C. H. Roloson, C. W. Schneidereith, Prof. S. A. Schulz, Prof.
E. H. Sehrt, Prof. R. H. Shryock, F. J. Singley, Jr., A. R. Slagle, Prof. T.
Stark, C. F. Stein, Jr., Prof. A. E. Zucker.
M.H.P.
February, 1963
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