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''John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg'' is a bronze statue by Caroline M. Hufford. It is located at Muhlenberg Park, at Connecticut Avenue and Ellicott Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C.〔http://dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0001530.htm〕 It was dedicated on October 26, 1980. The inscription reads: (Sculpture, back below proper left shoulder:) Caroline Hufford (foundry mark) (Base, front:) GABRIEL MUHLENBERG 1746-1807 SERVING HIS CHURCH HIS COUNTRY HIS STATE (Base, north side:) 1787-1807 (Base, back:) 1774-1783 (Base, south side:) 1768-1776 (Back of wall/bench:) IN GRATITUDE TO JOHN F. HARBESON, FAIA ARCHITECT signed Founder's mark appears. (Plaque inscription at south end of wall/bench:) CLERGYMAN JOHN PETER GABRIEL MUHLENBERG BORN AT TRAPPE PENNSYLVANIA OCTOBER 1, 1746 ELDEST SON OF ANNA AND HENRY MELCHIOR MUHLENBERG ATTENDED UNIVERSITY OF HALLE GERMANY 1763 ORDAINED LUTHER MINISTER 1768 PASTOR LUTHERAN CHURCHES NEW JERSEY MARRIED TO ANNA MEYER 1770 ORDAINED EPISCOPAL MINISTER 1772 PASTOR LUTHERAN AND EPISCOPAL CHURCHES WOODSTOCK VA. 1772 PREACHED HIS "TIME TO PRAY, TIME TO FIGHT" SERMON 1776 AND RECRUITED A REGIMENT FROM VIRGINIA HE WAS THE "FIGHTING PARSON OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION" (Plaque inscription in the middle of the wall/bench:) SOLDIER COMMISSIONED COLONEL OF VIRGINIA MILITIA 1775 COMMANDED EIGHTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT WHICH BECAME THE "GERMAN REGIMENT" OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY FOUGHT AT CHARLESTON AND PHILADELPHIA PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERAL 1777 WINTERED WITH HIS TROOPS AT VALLEY FORGE 1777-1778 FOUGHT AT BRANDYWINE, GERMANTOWN, MONMOUTH AND STONY POINT MEMBER, ROYAL ARCH MASONIC LODGE, PHILADELPHIA 1779 NAMED COMMANDER OF ALL FORCES IN VIRGINIA 1780 FOUGHT AT PORTSMOUTH AND YORKTOWN PROMOTED TO MAJOR GENERAL 1783 RETIRED NOVEMBER 3, 1783 A LISTING OF THE PRINCIPAL DONORS TO THIS MEMORIAL IS GIVEN IN THE SOUTH SIDE ENTRANCE TO THE NARTHEX OF ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH (Plaque inscription on north end of the wall/bench:) STATESMAN RETURNED FROM MILITARY SERVICE TO WOODSTOCK VIRGINIA 1783 RECEIVED LAND GRANT OF 11,662 ACRES IN OHIO RIVER VALLEY "IN CONSIDERATION OF SEVEN YEARS SERVICE AS BRIGADIER GENERAL IN THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE" FOUNDER-MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT OF PENNSYLVANIA 1787 ELECTED TO FIRST HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1788 RE-ELECTED THIRD CONGRESS 1791-1795, SIXTH CONGRESS 1799-1801 ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE 1801 SERVED AS COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, PORT OF PHILADELPHIA 1801-1807 DIED OCTOBER 1, 1807 AT AGE 61 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (Hufford)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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