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MUHLENBERG, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS 255success I did.” A dedicated low church Episcopalian, Morgan even began his willwith a statement affirming his belief in the doctrine of the atonement.Unreflective and even inarticulate, Morgan was generally a man of action ratherthan of ideas. His support of the ecumenical movement was demonstrated in hisgift of $100,000 to begin preparations for a world conference on faith and order,and he was a major benefactor of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Some ofhis other benefactions included a trade school for the boys of St. George’s Church,a new parish house and rectory for the church, a department of natural history atTrinity College in Hartford, and a complete electrical plant for St. Paul’s Cathedralin London. He also served as a deputy to the General Convention, where hedutifully sat and listened to the often tedious ecclesiastical proceedings.Morgan died in Italy in March 1913. He was so well known in the EpiscopalChurch that the bishops of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York all participatedin his funeral at St. George’s Church.BibliographyB. ANB 15, 833–39; DAB 13, 175–80; NCAB 14, 66–68; WWWA 1, 865; Zachary Leader,“800 Napkins, 47 Finger Bowls,” London Review of Books, 16 March 2000, 18–20; Frederick L. Allen, The Great Pierpont Morgan (New York, 1949); WilliamS. Rainsford, The Story of a Varied Life: An Autobiography (Garden City, N.Y.,1922); Vincent P. Carosso, The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854–1913 (Cambridge, Mass., 1987); Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An AmericanBanking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (New York, 1990); JeanStrouse, Morgan: American Financier (New York, 1999).MUHLENBERG, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS (16 September 1796, Philadelphia–8 April 1877, New York.). Education: B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1815;studied theology under William White, Philadelphia, 1815–18. Career: Curate,Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1817–20; rector, St. James’s Church, Lancaster, Pa.,1820–26; supply rector, St. George’s Church, Flushing, N.Y., 1826–28; founderand headmaster, Flushing Institute, 1828–46; professor, St. Paul’s College, CollegePoint, N.Y., 1838–46; rector, Church of the Holy Communion, New York,1846–58; pastor-superintendent, St. Luke’s Hospital, New York, 1858–77.William Augustus Muhlenberg, arguably the most influential Episcopal priestof the mid-nineteenth century, was born in Philadelphia in 1796. He was the greatgrandsonof the eighteenth-century Lutheran leader Henry Melchior Muhlenberg.Baptized in a Lutheran church, he first became acquainted with the Episcopalliturgy at the age of five, when his family began attending services at ChristChurch in Philadelphia. After studying theology under the direction of WilliamWhite,* the bishop of Pennsylvania, Muhlenberg was ordained a deacon in 1817and a priest in 1820. Although he served briefly in parishes in Pennsylvania andNew York, he was chiefly interested in the development of social service institutions.One of his most important experiments began in the spring of 1828, whenhe opened the Flushing Institute on Long Island, New York. Despite its relatively