John Theodore Mueller (1885-1967) Papers

John Theodore (J.T.) Mueller was born on April 5, 1885, near Janesville, Minnesota. He completed the prescribed route for LCMS theological education at the Concordia Colleges of Saint Paul, Minnesota; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Fort Wayne, Indiana. He attended Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis, Missouri) from 1904-1907 and was graduated in 1907.

He served at Luther College, New Orleans from 1908-1911. He was married to Adeline Meibohm in New Orleans on February 25, 1908. His next area of service was at Wittenberg Academy (Wittenberg, Missouri) from 1911-1913. He then served Saint John Lutheran Church (Hubbell, Michigan) from 1913-1917. From 1917 to 1920 he served Zion Lutheran Church (Ottawa, Illinois) and Trinity Lutheran Church (Marseilles, Illinois).

In 1920, he became a professor at Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis). His main areas of teaching were dogmatics and exegesis. He served as assistant pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church (Saint Louis) from 1920-1947. He was Chairman of the Board for Young People's Literature from 1929-1959, was a member of the Board for Colored Missions of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference from 1931-1941. In 1949-1950 he was sent to the Bad Boll Theological Conference in Germany.

He was Co-editor of Der Lutheraner, the official German organ of LCMS,and Contributing editor of the Concordia Theological Monthly. He held both offices from his first year on campus. He also held the post of editor of the Missionstaube from 1922-1935. He was editor for Kalendar für deutsche Lutheraner 1939-1949. He also held the position of Faculty Secretary from 1922 until an unknown date.

Aside from his duties as Professor and editor, Dr. Mueller also wrote prolifically. His publications included such titles as

• Little Minister of Elderon Creek (published in 1926)
• Five Minutes Daily with Luther (1926)
• Christian Fundamentals (1926)
• Faith Unshaken (1926)
• My Church and Others (1926)
• The Church at Corinth (1928)
• Boys and Girls Who Became Great Missionaries (1929)
• Great Heroes of the Faith (1929)
• Three Young Pioneers (1930)
• A Merry Christmas Party (1930)
• What is Christianity and other Essays (1933)
• Thy Kingdom Come (1938)
• Heroes of the Black Hills (1938)
• Miles Coverdale on the English Bible (1938)
• Faith of Our Fathers (Eerdmans, 1939)
• Problem Sermons for Young People (Zondervan, 1939)
• John Paton (Zondervan, 1939)
• Great Missionaries to Africa (Zondervan, 1939)
• The Concordia New Testament with Notes (1942), editor
• Concordia Bible with Notes (1946)
• Great Missionaries to China (1947)
• Great Missionaries to the Orient (1948)
• We Baptize Children (1948)
• The Lord's Supper and the Christian Life (1948)
• Sabbath or Sunday (1948)
• Great Missionaries to India (1949)
• Story of the Lutheran Laymen's League (1949)
• The Lutheran Reformation: Its Background and Blessing (1951, French ed., 1952)