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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beissel , Johann Conrad , 1690 - (search)
Beissel, Johann Conrad, 1690-
Reformer; born in Eberbach, Germany, in 1690; becoming a Dunker he was forced to leave his native country and emigrated to Pennsylvania, where in 1733 he established at the village of Ephrata a monastic society, which at one time numbered nearly 300.
The Capuchin habit was adopted )by both sexes and celibacy was considered a virtue, though not an obligation.
Soon after the death of Beissel, in 1768, the society at Ephrata began to decline.
A history of the Ephrata society was published in 1901.