John Frederick Weishampel, Jr

John Frederick Weishampel, Jr. (April 22, 1832 – 189?) was a Baltimore, Maryland, USA born printer and publisher who was prolific in the mid-nineteenth century. His print shop was located at 484 West Baltimore Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. The most historically significant book that Weishampel published is "A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man" (1859). This nonprofit book was printed solely for the purpose of raising money to buy two of Davis' (a former slave himself) children out of slavery.

J.F. Weishampel, Jr. was a third generation Prussian American and son of Rev. John Frederick Weishampel.

Publications

*Camp meeting hymnby John F Weishampel (1852)
*The prayer meeting hymn book: A selection of standard evangelical hymns, for prayer and conference meetings, revivals, and family and private devotionby John F Weishampel (1858)
*The Testimony of a Hundred Witnesses, John F Weishampel, Sr. Ed. (1858)
*A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man. Written by Himself, at the Age of Fifty-Four by Noah Davis, published J. F. Weishampel, Jr., (1859))
*New and Enlarged Map of Baltimore City. Engraved by E. Sachse & Co. and published by John F. Weishampel, Jr., based on surveys by Wm. H. Shipley.(1872)
*History of Baptist Churches in Maryland, 1742 - 1885, by Harvey Johnson (1842 - 1923), Baltimore: J.F. Weishampel, Jr., (1885)
*The stranger in Baltimore: A new hand book containing a general description of Baltimore City and its notable localities, with other information useful to both citizens and strangersby J. F. Weishampel, Jr.(1885)
*Weishampel's Baltimore guide: The stranger in Baltimore: a new hand book, containing a general description of Baltimore with other information (1888)
*The man Christ Jesus: Character and purpose of Jesusby J. F. Weishampel, Jr.(1894))
*The pope's stratagem: "Rome to America!": An address to the Protestants of the United States, against placing the Pope's block of marble in the Washington monumentby J. F. Weishampel, Jr.(date unknown)

External links, resources and references

* [http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/believers/weishampelthw/THW000A.HTM The Testimony of a Hundred Witnesses (1858)]
* [http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/davisn/menu.html A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man. Written by Himself, at the Age of Fifty-Four. Baltimore: J. F. Weishampel, Jr., (1859)] .
* [http://www.epfl.net/exhibits/catorprints/cator132.html New and Enlarged Map of Baltimore City. (1872)]
* [http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1259/121/6050/html/12414000.html Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson]