Dr. Muhlenberg

In February 1845 Henry Augustus Coit for the first time went away from home to boarding school at St. Paul’s College, College Point, Long Island, a school run by The Rev. Dr. William Augustus Muhlenberg. Henry Coit was then fifteen years of age. These years away at boarding school no doubt had a deep influence on the young Henry Coit. From Dr. Muhlenberg’s school, Henry Coit brought away a memory of a school in which the Chapel was the center of the whole school life, a school in which boys lived in dormitories of curtained cubicles, a school with gardens and gymnasium and with water close by where the boys could swim and row. His boyhood experience there had provided him with a model according to which in some measure he was later to build.