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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Horn, William, 1839-1917 |
| Title, Monographic | Autobiography of Bishop William Horn 1839-1917 |
| Place of Publication | Cleveland |
| Publisher | Privately printed |
| Date of Publication | 1920 |
| Extent of Work | 23 pp., frontispiece portrait |
| Contents | "The original manuscript of which this book is an exact copy was written by Father and read by himself at the celebration of Father and Mother Horn's Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary, which was held at their home, fifteen hundred and four East One Hundred and Seventh Street, Cleveland, Ohio, on the nineteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and fourteen." |
| Abstract | Born at Oberfishbach, near Siegen, in Prussia, on the 7th day of May, 1839. Came with his family to America in 1855. "By way of Buffalo, Detroit and Chicago, we finally landed in the back-woods of Wisconsin, at Cooperstown in Manitowoc County. . . . Our nearest neighbors were Indians, bears and deer." Attended his first evangelical meeting in a small farm house in Lomira. “. . . to this day I remember his text and also some remarks Rev. O. [Oswald] Ragatz made at this meeting.” [See also: FH Ragatz.] Began his ministry “in the autumn of 1861, bought a lame horse (because it was cheap) from Mr. Katzendobler, a Catholic blacksmith, and an old buggy of Father Huelster. . . . In 1864, Port Washington fell to my lot as field of labor. I was now 25 years old, ordained a Deacon and therefore allowed to marry.” Married Mary Fischbach of Hartford in 1864. In 1871, he was elected editor of Das Evangelische Magazin and moved to Cleveland, Ohio. “I had never been in a printing establishment before and yet I was to edit not only the German juvenile literature for the church, but also establish a new family and Sunday School Magazine. . . . But in spite of the ignorance . . . the Christliche Kinderfreund, Lämmerweide, Sunday School Books, and even the Almanac were edited and the new Magazine was not only properly launched, but to my own astonishment met with unexpected success. . . . I described . . . what I had done, heard, seen, thought and dreamed in the mysterious wild woods and among the Indians in Wisconsin . . . and this seemed to please the readers.” In 1879 Horn was made editor of the Christliche Botschafter. See also: https://hymnary.org/person/Horn_William” (“Of his twenty-four hymns the most famous, according to Ellen J. Lorenz, was ‘Pure and free from all corruption.’ He also translated many English hymns into German.”) |
| Notes | Privately Printed for the Members of His Family, December Twenty-Fifth, Nineteen Twenty Copyright 1920 by Harry J. Lamb, Cleveland. Purchased with Library Collections Enhancement Initiative funds provided by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education with support from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. |
| Call Number | MKI P86-52 |
| MKI Terms | Autobiography/ Family History |