Good day fellow reseachers. This edition is coming a day late as I had a 'bad hair day' yesterday <grin> I see that the next edition is in the bin. I will edit and send it after I return from church. This is the fourth of a one week's evaluation of an enlarged and expanded CHI TIH feature. If you wish to comment please contact me or the list owner. Our addresses are at the end of the article. Today in History (December 18): 1707 Charles Wesley, co-founder of Methodism and hymnist, born at Epworth Rectory, England; the 18th child of an Anglican pastor, Wesley followed his older brother John to Oxford in 1726; the Wesleys and their friends formed the "Holy Club"; the group was derisively dubbed the "Methodists" for their methodical forms of personal piety; *** *** There is more detail Contact me or the Concordia Historical Institute 1831 J. H. Jox, Fort Wayne graduate, pastor in Freistadt, Wisconsin; Logansport, Indiana; vice-president of Central District; founded numerous congregations in vicinity of Logansport; born near Giessen, Hesse- Darmstadt 1834 Emory College was chartered in Oxford, Georgia, under Methodist auspices; in 1915 the name was changed to Emory University, and in 1919 the college was relocated in Atlanta, Georgia 1857 Johann Leonhard George Mezger, theological professor at St. Louis and in Berlin, born in Brunswick, Germany 1863 Johann Friedrich Gustav Harders, missionary to American Indians at Globe, Arizona, born in Kiel, Germany 1877 Joergen Peter Nielsen, president of Trinity Seminary, Blair, Nebraska, born in Sludstrup, Parish Sjalland, Denmark 1892 Rabbi H. Rosenberg was expelled from Temple Beth-Jacob in Brooklyn, New York, for eating pork 1895 The Anti-Saloon League of America organized at Washington, D.C.; opposes the general use of intoxicating liquors; headquartered in Westerville, Ohio If you wish to use these items, please get permission. Permission to post TIH items on LUTHERAN-ROOTS was received from Marvin A. Huggins, C.A., Associate Director Concordia Historical Institute (314)505-7921 801 De Mun Avenue FAX: (314)505-7901 St. Louis, MO 63105-3168 mhuggins@chi.lcms.org Web Page: http://chi.lcms.org/ for now, contributor John Birkholz brotherjohn@imt.net The list owner is Mary D. Taffet mdtaffet@mailbox.syr.edu