Jacob Albright was an American Christian leader, founder of Albright's People which was officially named the Evangelical Association in 1816.
17 Facts About Jacob Albright
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Jacob Albright's parents were German immigrants from the Palatine Region of Germany, but sources disagree on when they immigrated to the United States.
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Jacob Albright was educated in a German school where he learned reading, writing and arithmetic.
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Only three children survived to adulthood: Sarah, wife of Noah Ranck; Jacob Albright, who died childless; and David, married to Mary Riedenbach, who had children.
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The young family moved to Earl Township, Lancaster County, and they lived near Ephrata, Pennsylvania, where the young Jacob Albright took up farming and was in the business of manufacturing tiles and bricks.
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Jacob Albright asked Anthony Houtz, a Dutch Reformed pastor affiliated with a study group organized by Philip William Otterbein to conduct the funeral.
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Jacob Albright was so moved by his funeral sermon that he continued discussions with a neighbor who was a lay preacher in Otterbein's followers.
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Jacob Albright felt called by God to take the message of Methodism to the German-speaking people.
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In 1796, Jacob Albright began carrying his message to the German-speaking residents of south-eastern Pennsylvania.
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Jacob Albright was licensed by the Methodist Church but was not permitted to preach in the German language, so he set out on his own.
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Jacob Albright had never given any indication that he was interested in forming a new organization or church, but in 1803, at the insistence of the leaders of his classes, he called a general meeting of the lay leaders and preachers for November 1803.
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Jacob Albright assigned preachers and did what business was needed.
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The next year, weakened and in poor health from exhaustion and tuberculosis, Jacob Albright fell ill while traveling from Linglestown, Pennsylvania, northeast of Harrisburg.
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Jacob Albright was buried there in the Becker family plot.
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Jacob Albright Seminary was established by the Pittsburgh Conference in Berlin, Pennsylvania in 1853 and lasted about 5 years.
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Jacob Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, formed by the merger of several Evangelical institutions, is a United Methodist affiliated school.
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The first doctrinal book Practical Christianity, written in 1811 by George Miller, was published in 1814 by twenty of Jacob Albright's followers known as "The Patrons of the First Edition" who financially supported the publication.