Henry Augustus Muhlenberg

Who was Henry Augustus Muhlenberg?

Henry Augustus Muhlenberg III (1848–1906) was a prominent citizen of Reading, Pennsylvania and an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Congress with the Republican nomination in 1892.

Muhlenberg was born in Reading. He was the son of Henry Augustus Muhlenberg and Annie H. Muhlenberg Muhlenberg, who was a cousin of Henry Augustus on his father's side.

The young Muhlenberg studied with a tutor but later spent a year at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg. He then began studies at Harvard University 1868. He graduated from Harvard with honors, receiving a degree in history in 1872. He then went to study law in the office of George F. Baer, Esq., being admitted to the bar of Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1875. He was main involved in business law. He was a director in the Framers' National Bank, the Reading Trust Company, and the Mount Penn Gravity Railroad. He was also a director and treasurer of the Reading City Passenger Railway Company, which he help found. He was also a trustee of the Charles Evans Cemetery Company, a vestryman of Trinity Lutheran Church, and a member of the Valley Forge Park Commission, to which position he was appointed by two Governors of Pennsylvania.