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A JOURNAL OF GERMAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

PUBLISHED BY THE

SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE

GERMANS IN MARYLAND

1972

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

THE MARYLAND GERMANS

A HISTORY

by DIETER CUNZ

This is the first full history of the German immigration to a state of the

Middle Atlantic region which shows the typical American juxtaposition of

Anglo-Saxon and Continental European immigrants. The book opens with

the first coming of the Germans to the old Calvert Colony around 1650

and brings the account to the 1940's. Here is the story of the Americaniza-

tion of these German immigrants and their descendents. And here is the

story of the men who lead them to an important place in the civic, cul-

tural and religious life of their "Free State." For twenty years now The

Maryland Germans has been considered a standard history by scholars and

laymen who are concerned with the story of the "peopling of America."

* * *

Published in 1948 by the Princeton University Press, this important work

on immigration history which was sponsored by the Society for the History

of the Germans in Maryland is now being reprinted. The Society has retained

a very limited number of original copies for sale to libraries, institutions and

interested individual scholars and researchers.

ORDERS FOR SINGLE COPIES (NO MULTIPLE ORDERS ACCEPTED)

FROM

THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE

GERMANS IN MARYLAND

231 St. Paul Place, Baltimore, Maryland 21202

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VOLUME

XXXV

A JOURNAL OF GERMAN-AMERICAN HISTORY

PUBLISHED BY THE

SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE

GERMANS IN MARYLAND

EDITED BY KLAUS WUST

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

1972

PRICE

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1972

THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE

GERMANS IN MARYLAND

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BALTIMORE

, MARYLAND 21202

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BT J. H. FURST COMPANY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

............

EEPORT OF THE SECRETARY

...........

AUGUSTUS

J. PRAHL

By CHARLES D. MURPHY .........

A. E. ZUCKER

By WALTER KNOCHE ..........

THE THREE WILLS OF BARON VON STEUBEN

By MORGAN H. PRITCHETT and EDITH VON ZEMENSZKY .

THE EARLY GERMAN JEWS OF BALTIMORE

By MOSES ABERBACH ..........

NOTES ABOUT THE GERMAN PRESS IN THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY

By LA VERN J. RIPPLEY ..........

Swiss AND GERMAN EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA IN ROTTERDAM, 1736

By WALTER L. ROBBINS ..........

THE SAXONS WHO NEVER CAME TO VIRGINIA

By KLAUS WUST ............

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS

THE AUGUSTUS J. PRAHL FELLOWSHIP IN

GERMAN FUND

GERMAN BIBLE SUBSCRIBERS IN WESTERN MARYLAND IN 1819

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MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE

HISTORY OF THE GERMANS IN MARYLAND

1972

REV

. IMMANUEL W. ALBRECHT

ALBERT

P. BACKHAUS

BERNHARD

G. BEYER

HARVEY

C. BICKEL

RUDOLF W. BlRNBACH

KARL BRAND

HERBERT

M. BRUNE

. ALFRED BUCK

. HELMUT F. CASCORBI

PROF

. SIEGFRIED CLEMENS

ROBERT

M. CREAGER

BRUCE

S. DANZER

REV

. RICHARD DIMLER, S. J.

PROF

. EITEL DOBERT

. MARTIN W. DONNER

CLEMENT

D. ERHARDT

REV

. EDWARD P. ENGELBERT

ERWIN

H. ENGELBERT

GEORGE

A. ENGELBERT

HERBERT

E. FANKHANEL

HERMAN

A. FELDMANN

KAHL FLORENZ

OTTO

H. FRANKE

MILTON

T. FREBURGER

PROF

. GERHARD K. FRIESEN

GEORGE

C. FRISCH

PROF

. HANNAH GELDRICH

HERMINE GOEDE

C. DAVID HAACKE

ARNO

R. HABERKORN, SR.

RICHARD

E. HARMON

GUSTAV HELLER

HENRY

R. HERGENROEDER

PROF

. CHRISTOPH HERING

EDGAR

G. HEYL

. RUDOLF HOEHN-SARIC

PROF

. GUY T. HOLLYDAY

. KENNETH G. HORVATH

PROF

. HAROLD JANTZ

CURT

A. H. JESCHKE

PROF

. GEORGE F. JONES

. PETER F. JORDAN

OTTO

H. KAPPUS

REV

. DR. DONALD E. KERR

PROF

. WALTER KNOCHE

. WERNER A. KOHLMEYER

PROF

. HERTHA H. KROTKOFF

PROF

. LILO E. KURTH

HENRY

O. LAMPE

OTTO LEONHARDT

. RICHARD LINDENBERG

WALTER

G. LOHR

WALTER

G. LOHR, JR.

MRS

. HAROLD R. MANAKEE

HAROLD

R. MANAKEE

PROF

. WILLIAM H. McCLAlN

HON

. THEODORE R. McKELDIN

ADOLF MEISTER

. KURT G. F. MOELLER

& MRS. HUGH J. MONAGHAN

JOHN

E. MOTZ

ALVIN

P. OHLER

REV

F. H. PENNER

BERNARD

G. PETER

JOHN

W. PFEIFER

KIRVAN H. PIERSON

RUDY X. POELSTERL

. RICHARD A. POLACSEK

HERMAN PRAG

FRANCIS

W. PRAMSCHUFER, SR.

PROF

. MORGAN H. PRITCHETT

PROF

. LA VERN J. RIPPLEY

WILLIAM

C. ROGERS

TONI ROSE

GEORGE

F. SANDER, SR.

GEORGE

F. SANDER, JR.

HENRY

L. SANDLASS

HERBERT

W. SCHAEFER

DETLEF

R. SCHLESINGER

CARL

F. C. SCHLEUNES, JR.

KAHL

W. SCHLITZ

VOLKER K. SCHMEISSNER

C. WILLIAM SCHNEIDEREITH, SR.

C. WILLIAM SCHNEIDEREITH, JR.

HELENE SCHNEIDEREITH

EDWIN SCHOENRICH

OTTO SCHOENRICH

PROF

. SIEGFRIED A. SCHULZ

PROF

. EDWARD H. SEHRT

ROBERT

K. SELLERS, JR.

PROF

. HELMUT SIEG

LEONARD

A. A. SIEMS

FREDERICK

J. SINGLEY, JR.

A. RUSSELL SLAGLE

ROBERT LEE SLINGLUFF

, JR.

WILLIAM

T. SNYDER, JR.

PROF

. EDMUND M. SPIEKER

PROF

. TAYLOR STARCK

& MRS. CHARLES F. STEIN, JR.

CHARLES

F. STEIN, III

WILLIAM

H. STEINBACH

GORDON

M. F. STICK

MRS

. WALLACE W. SYMINGTON

HENRY

J. THAU

MRS

. JOSEPH M. TIGHE

ARTHUR

J. TRAUTNER

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GUNTER K. VON NOORDEN

ANNA

K. VON SCHWERDTNER

PROF

. ERNST O. VON SCHWERDTNER

SUSANNA

M. VON SCHWERDTNER

PROF

. EDITH VON ZEMENSZKY

AUGUST

H. WAGENER

. COL. W. H. WEBER

. RICHARD D. WEIGLE

VERNON

H. WIESAND

PROF

. JOHN K. WESKE

CARL

H. WINKLER

KLAUS WUST

CONRAD ZIEGET

, JR.

PROF

. CARRIE MAY K. ZINTL

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS

PROFESSOR EARL

J. ARNDT. .................Clark University, Worcester

PROFESSOR ERWIN

G. GUDDE ...............University of California, Berkeley

PROFESSOR ERICH HOFACKEE

................Washington University, St. Louis

PROFESSOR AUGUST

C. MAHR. ...............Ohio State University, Columbus

PROFESSOR HARRY

S. PFUND. ................Haverford College, Haverford

PROFESSOR HENRY

A. POCHMANN.

...........University of Wisconsin, Madison

. FELIX REICHMANN ..................... Cornell University, Ithaca

. RALPH C. WOOD. ..................... .Lehigh University, Bethlehem

OFFICERS

CHARLES

F. STEIN, JR.

.............................. President

PROFESSOR HAROLD JANTZ

...........................First Vice-President

A. RUSSELL SLAGLE ................................. Second Vice-President

GORDON

M. F. STICK. ............................... Treasurer

PROFESSOR MORGAN

H. PRITCHETT.

................... Secretary

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

WILLIAM

T. SNYDER, JR.,

Chairman

ALBERT

P. BACKHAUS

WALTER

G. LOHR

PROF

. WALTER KNOCHE

OTTO

H. FRANKE

KLAUS WUST

Executive Committee

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OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF THE

GERMANS IN MARYLAND, 1886-1972

PRESIDENTS

REV

. JOHN GOTTLIEB MORRIS..... .1886-1895

REV

. BENJAMIN SADTLER. .........1896-1900

LOIUS P. HENNIGHAUSEN. .........1901-1906

. 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. ................1962-1967

PROF

A. J. PRAHL. ...............1967-1970

CHARLES

F. STEIN, JR. ............ 1971-

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

. ERNEST J. BECKER. ...........1911-1917

HENRY

G. HILKEN. ...............1918-1937

J. GEORGE MOHLHENRICH. ........1938-1940

PROF

A. E. ZUCKER. .............1940-1956

. ERNEST G. SCHWIEBERT. ......1956-1958

PROF

E. O. VON SCHWERDTNER. .. .1958-1962

PROF

A. J. PRAHL. ..............1962-1967

PROF

. HAROLD JANTZ. ............1967-

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. ........ .1918-1982

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. .... .1959-1965

PROF

. HAROLD JANTZ. ............1965-1967

CHARLES

F. STEIN, JR.. ..........1967-1971

A. RUSSELL SLAGLE .............. 1971-

TREASURERS

EDWARD NIEMANN

..............1886-1888

ROBERT

M. ROTHER. .............1889-1929

CONRAD

C. RABBE. ...............1930-1937

CHARLES

F. STEIN, JR.. ...........1938-1967

PROF

. MORGAN H. PRITCHETT .... 1967-1970

GORDON

M. F. STICK. ...........1971-

SECRETARIES

REV

. FR. PH. HENNIGHAUSEN. .... .1886-1905

J. LEONARD HOFFMAN. ...........1905-1911

J. CONRAD UHLIG................1911-1913

. 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

. 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 JANTZ. ............1962-1965

WILLIAM

T. SNYDER, JR.. .........1965-

MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE

COMMITTEE 1925-1970

C. WILLIAM SCHNEIDERITH. .......1925-1926

PROF

. WILLIAM KURRELMEYER. .. .1926-1937

ANDREW

H. METTEE. .............1926-1929

J. GEORGE MOHLHENRICH. ........1926-1938

LEWIS KURTZ

.................... 1926-1938

. 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...... .1938-1946

. ERNEST J. BECKER. ..........1939-1949

R. LEE SLINGLUFF, JR.. ..........1939-1951

REV

. FRITZ O. EVERS. ............1942-1955

WALTER

E. BEUCHELT. ...........1944-1931

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 JANTZ. ............1958-1965

A. RUSSELL SLAGLE .............. 1958-

KLAUS

G. WUST. ................1958-

ALBERT

P. BACKHAUS. ............1962-

PROF

. CHRISTOPH A. HERING. .... .1962-1967

HENRY

R. HERGENROEDER ......... 1965-

OTTO

H. FRANKE ................. 1967-

PROF

. WALTER KNOCHE .......... 1970-

WALTER

G. LOHR.

...............1970-

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THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY

The present Report, Volume XXXV, is the third to appear since 1968

with the sub-title Journal of German-American History. It is our sincere

wish that those libraries which subscribe to this publication have noted this

fact in their public catalogs.

Due to questions raised regarding the contributors to the Dieter Cunz

Memorial Publication Fund, the Executive Committee of the Society

resolved to list once more the names of those who generously provided funds

to publish Volume XXXIV of The Report (1970) in honor of the late

Professor Dieter Cunz.

Contributors to the Dieter Memorial Publication Fund:

ALBERT

P. BACKHAUS

HUGO BEKKER

RUDOLF

W. BIRNBACH

BURLEY CHANNER

SIEGFRIED

M. CLEMENS

ALAN

P. COTRELL

CHARLOTTE

B. EVANS

CARL RICHARD EXNER

WOLFGANG

& DOROTHY FLEISCHAUER

& MRS. OTTO H. FRANKE

MILTON

T. FREBURGER

GERHARD

K. FRIESEN

NORBERT A

. FUERST

WERNER HAAS

HENRY

C. HELMKE

CHRISTOPH HERING

CHARLES

W. HOFFMANN

HOLGER HOMANN

KENNETH

G. HORVATH

HAROLD JANTZ

GEORGE

F. JONES

WALTER KNOCHE

WERNER

A. KOHLMEYER

LILO

E. KURTH

M. ELLSWORTH KYGER

OTTO LEONHARDT

RICHARD LINDENBEBG

DICK

& MARIA McCUTCHEN

WILLIAM C. MCDONALD

HERTA

J. B. MENDERS

JOHN

E. MOTZ

DONALD

F. NELSON

A. J. PRAHL

HERMINE PRAHL

FRANCIS

W. PBAMSCHUFER

MORGAN

H. PRITCHETT

DONALD

C. RIECHEL

LAVERN

J. RIPPLEY

GEORGE

F. SANDER,

III

ANNEMARIE

M. SAUERLANDER

OSKAR SEIDLIN

VOLKER K

. SCHMEISSNER

EDWIN SCHOENRICH

ADOLF

E. SCHROEDER

EDWARD

H. SEHRT

A. RUSSELL SLAGLE

WILLIAM

T. SNYDER

EDMUND

M. SPIEKER

GORDON

M. F. STICK

ARTHUR

J. TRAUTNER

HENRIETTE VENT

MYRON

H. VENT

LARRY

S. WELLS

VERNON

H. WIESAND

WOLFGANG WITTKOWSKI

KLAUS WUST

CARRIE MAY KURRELMEYER ZINTL

ZION CURCH OF THE CLTY OF BALTIMORE

. E. ZUCKER

It is most appropriate to mention at this time that our Editor's book

The Virginia Germans received on September 16, 1971, from The American

Association for State and Local History the Award of Merit for "an out-

standing contribution to local history." In the letter accompanying this

Award, the Committee on Awards of this Association considered Mr. Wust's

book " a most informative one which richly deserved this recognition."

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Professor Harold Jantz, Chairman of the Department of German at

The Johns Hopkins University, and First Vice-President of the Society,

was honored at a Conference on Early American Literature held at Genesco,

New York, on October 21 and 22, 1971. This Conference, sponsored by

The State Universities of New York as one of its centennial events, was

dedicated to Professor Jantz "in honor of his contributions to early

American Literature."

In addition to studying Goethe extensively, Professor Jantz has also

devoted his research and writing to comparative literature, and particularly

to American literary and intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries.

One of his pioneer works is The First Century of New England Verse, a

comprehensive study in which approximately four-fifths of the material

was unknown to any previous survey or bibliography. Among his other

American research in progress are a study of John Winthrop, founder of

Connecticut, and an edition of the literary works of Francis David Pastorius,

founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Since the publication of the last Report, the guest speakers at the Annual

Dinner Meeting of the Society, which is held in February of each year,

were:

1971 Professor Don Yoder (University of Pennsylvania), "The Two

Worlds of Pennsylvania Dutch."

1972 Professor Guy T. Hollyday (University of Pennsylvania), "The

Art, Calligraphy, and Bookmaking of a Colonial Pennsylvania

Settlement."

April, 1972

M.H.P.

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