William Cornelius Reichel

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William Cornelius Reichel (born in Salem, North Carolina, 9 May 1824; died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 15 October 1876) was a Moravian author in the United States who did much to document and examine the early history of the Moravian church in the United States.

Biography

Reichel was the son of Rev. Benjamin Reichel, of Salem Female Academy. He entered

Reichel did more than any one else to elucidate the early history of the Moravian church in the United States. In addition to articles in The Moravian and the local press, and a sketch of Northampton County, prepared for William H. Egle's History of Pennsylvania, he wrote:

• History of Nazareth Hall (Philadelphia, 1855; enlarged ed., 1869)
• History of the Bethlehem Female Seminary, 1785-1858 (1858)
• Moravianism in New York and Connecticut (1860)
• Memorials of the Moravian Church (1870)
• Wyalusing, and the Moravian Mission at Friedenshuetten (Bethlehem, 1871)
• Names which the Lenni Lennapé or Delaware Indians gave to Rivers, Streams, and Localities within the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia, with their Significations, from a manuscript of John Heckewelder (1872)
• A Red Rose from the Olden Time, or a Ramble through the Annals of the Rose Inn on the Barony of Nazareth in the Days of the Province (Philadelphia, 1872)
• The Crown Inn, near Bethlehem, Pa., 1745 (1872)
• The Old Sun Inn at Bethlehem, Pa., 1758 (Doylestown, Pa., 1873)
• A Register of Members of the Moravian Church, 1727 to 1754 (Bethlehem, 1873)
• John Heckewelder, History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations who once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighboring States, revised edition (Philadelphia, 1876)

He left unfinished History of Bethlehem and History of Northampton County.

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References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Reichel, Charles Gotthold" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

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