Samuel Fatzinger hymnbook

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 6052

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

This collection consists of a microfilm copy of a fraktur manuscript hymnbook and twelve color slides of selected pages.

Dates

1818.

Creator

Fatzinger, Samuel. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Samuel Fatzinger was born near Allentown, Pennsylvania on December 19, 1801, the son of Jacob and Catherine Fatzinger, a brother of Thomas, Levi and Edward Fatzinger and Elisha Fatzinger Watkins. With his family he moved in 1818 to the present town of Varick. Not long after Samuel went to South Waterloo, New York where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was one of three trustees who supervised the construction of a new school in Fayette in 1845. In 1844 he had been elected town supervisor of Fayette. Fatzinger died in Ypsilanti, Michigan on December 9, 1858.

Extent

1 microfilm reels. (1 microfilm reels.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Microfilm copy of a fraktur manuscript hymnbook of the German Reformed church illuminated in the Pennsylvania Dutch style.

Physical Description

Microfilm, photographs.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: S.L.W.D.
Date completed:: Nov. 1979
EAD encoding:: Andrea Hektor, June 2004
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, February 2015