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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boehler , Peter , 1712 -1775 (search)
Boehler, Peter, 1712-1775
Clergyman: born in Frankfort, Germany, Dec. 31, 1712: was graduated at Jena in 1736; ordained a Moravian minister in 1737; and was sent as an evangelist to Carolina and Georgia in 1738.
On his way he became acquainted with John and Charles Wesley, upon whom he exercised great influence.
Indeed. John Wesley records in his diary that Boehler was the person through whom he was brought to believe in Christ.
The Moravian colony in Georgia was broken up and removed to Pennsylvania in 1740.
He was consecrated bishop in 1748 and superintended the Moravian churches in America in 1 753-64, when he was recalled to Germany.
He died in London, England, April 27, 1775.
Jayne, Horace 1859-
Biologist; born in Philadelphia, March 5, 1859; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1879, and at its medical school in 1882; studied biology at Leipzig and Jena in 1883-84; and, returning to the United States, was first appointed lecturer in biology in the University of Pennsylvania, and subsequently Professor of Vertebrate Morphology there.
For a number of years he was dean of the faculty.
In 1900 he was director of the Wistar Institute of the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of Mammalian Anatomy; Revision of the Derumestidae of North America; Abnormities observed in North American Coleoptera, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pastorius , Francis Daniel -1681 (search)