Rev. Henry Moeller and Esther Ott

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Husband Rev. Henry Moeller ¹

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            AKA: Henry Müller 2
           Born: 1749 - Hamburg, Germany 2
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           Died: 16 Sep 1829 - Sharon, Schoharie Co, NY 3
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         Father: John Müller (Abt 1715-1760) 2 4
         Mother: Barbara [Unk] (      -1783) 2

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       Marriage: 19 Sep 1775 3

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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -1827)

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Wife Esther Ott ³

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           Born: 
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           Died:  - ? Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA
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         Father: [Father] Ott (      -      )
         Mother: 

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Henry Moeller

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His father emigrated to America in 1752, locating in then Lebanon township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and having received a classical education in the University of Gottingen. The son had a good instructor. Henry was brought to the notice of the Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, who secured him the appointment as assistant in a school in which he was himself at that time giving instruction, in the mean time devoting all his leisure to the study of theology under the direction of his patron. In the year 1774 he was licensed to preach by the Lutheran Synod of Pennsylvania. Mr. Moeller's first regular pastoral charge was at Reading, where he remained from August, 1775, to August, 1777, when he removed to Philadelphia. Having consecrated himself to the work of the ministry, he evinced much of a self-denying spirit in preaching the gospel to the poor, and laboring to collect and build up congregations in the most obscure places, and under the most unfavorable circumstances. He served for some time as chaplain to an associated battalion in the war of the Revolution. Mr. Moeller about 1783 became the settled pastor of the church at Albany, New York, and it was under his ministry that the first Lutheran Church edifice in that city was built. In 1789 he received and accepted a call to New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he continued very laboriously engaged until 1795, when he took charge of the Lutheran interests in Harrisburg and the neighborhood. He was the first pastor after the separation of the Lutheran from the Reformed congregation. Here he remained seven years, and although his duties were laborious, his ministry was a successful one. In the year 1802, much to the regret of the congregation, he relinquished this charge, returned to his former field of work in the State of New York, where he continued about six years (the period he usually allowed himself for continuance in one place), when he accepted a call to the united churches of Sharon and New Rhinebeck, Schoharie County, New York, where he officiated until physical infirmity rendered him incapable of attending to his pastoral duties.
Mr. Moeller in person was rather thick-set, somewhat below the medium height, and very agreeable in manners and appearance. As a preacher, he was not brilliant, but instructive and practical, while in the more private duties of the pastoral office was eminently felicitous and faithful. He was a bright example of the Christian spirit, and an eminently devoted minister.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 288.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 247.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 289.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 488.