Muhlenberg, Henry Augustus

Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions

Hiester Henry Muhlenberg papers

1828-1840

Hiester Henry Muhlenberg (1812-1886) was a member of the distinguished Muhlenberg family of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1829. This collection contains almost 200 letters, most of which were written by members of Muhlenberg's immediate family. These letters reflect...

Location: MC 2012.3

Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Health and Medicine, International Affairs, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Travel and Tourism

Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs

Time Period: 1820-1839, 1840-1859

Collection Inventory: mc2012.03.pdf

Letter from John Quincy Adams to the Union Philosophical Society

November 25, 1839

Former President and Representative John Quincy Adams writes to members of a committee of Union Philosophical Society (UPS) members and declines an invitation to deliver an address before a joint meeting of the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Society at Dickinson College. The members of...

Location: I-Friends-2008-3

Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education

Format: Letters/Correspondence

Time Period: 1820-1839

"The Past," by Henry Augustus Muhlenberg

July 9, 1840

Henry Augustus Muhlenberg prepared this oration, entitled “The Past," for the commencement ceremonies held July 9, 1840. Authoring an original speech was among the graduation requirements for Dickinson College seniors at that time. Transcript included.

Location: Orations-1840-M952p

Subject: Education, Literary Pursuits

Format: Speeches and Sermons

Time Period: 1840-1859

Letters from James Buchanan to Henry Welsh

1843-1851

James Buchanan writes to Henry Welch regarding various political issues in Pennsylvania and Buchanan's chances of winning elections. "My own prospects never were so bright as at the present moment," as Buchanan explains in December 1850. Buchanan...

Location: MC 1998.10

Subject: Politics and Government