Background
He was born on June 25, 1842 at Easton, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Reuben L. and Sarah A. (Hemsing) Seip.
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Muhlenberg College. an Address Delivered Before the Ministerium of Pennsylvania at Its 140th Annual Meeting
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Theodore Lorenzo Seip
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He attended Weaversville Academy, catching from its principal, H. F. Savage, a graduate of Amherst College, a love of Latin and Greek that never left him, and in 1860 he entered Pennsylvania (later Gettysburg) College.
Career
During June and July 1863 he was a soldier in the 26th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and for some months of 1864 he was a delegate of the United States Christian Commission in Tennessee and Georgia.
Graduating from college in 1864, he became a member of the first class in the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. In the summer of 1865 he was an inspector of the United States Sanitary Commission in Virginia. Toward the close of his seminary course in 1867 he was appointed assistant in the Allentown Collegiate Institute, which was reorganized that summer as Muhlenberg College with Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg as its president.
Seip was ordained June 16, 1867, by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania but, declining a call to St. John's, Quakertown, he stayed on at the college as principal of its preparatory department. Muhlenberg College became the work of his life. Besides conducting the academy he acted as assistant professor of Greek, 1867-72, and also gave instruction, when necessary, in other subjects. He was professor of Latin, 1872-76, though still giving some instruction in Greek also; was financial agent of the college from February 1876 till June 1877, collecting some $33, 000 sorely needed to pay the debts and current expenses; was professor of Greek and Latin, 1877-80, and Mosser-Keck professor of Greek, 1880-85. During all these years he acted also as secretary of the faculty.
On the retirement of John Philip Benjamin Sadtler as president at the close of 1885, Seip was elected to his place immediately and unanimously. He had worked loyally and indefatigably under its first two presidents in the long, chill spring of its early growth; his own administration of eighteen years was a period of increasing usefulness and efficiency. The chief problems were still financial, but they were no longer so pressing.
He was president of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, 1895-98.
He died at Allentown after a short illness.
Achievements
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Being the president of Muhlenberg College for eighteen years Theodore Lorenzo Seip made the college an honorable place among institutions of its class, it was the best time of increasing usefulness and efficiency for the college. He was one of the founders of the College Association of Pennsylvania.
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Muhlenberg College. an Address Delivered Before the Ministerium of Pennsylvania at Its 140th Annual Meeting
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Muhlenberg College. an Address Delivered Before the Ministerium of Pennsylvania at Its 140th Annual Meeting
Personality
Seip's personal qualities made him an almost ideal president of a small college; there was no phase of the work with which he was not familiar, and his urbane, dignified, friendly bearing made friends for him and for Muhlenberg College wherever he was known.
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Connections
He was twice married: in 1866 to Emma Elizabeth Shimer of Bath, who died in 1873, leaving him with two sons and a daughter; and in 1877 to Rebecca Keck of Allentown.
