Guide to the George Musgrave Giger Papers
Open for research.
George Musgrave Giger was born in Baltimore on June 6, 1822. He was educated at Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary. He became a professor of Greek at Princeton in 1847 and in 1854 he switched to teaching Latin. In 1860 he was ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick. During 1865 he lectured on architecture at Princeton. He died that year in Philadelphia.
Record Group 285 includes sermons, Latin and architecture notebooks, a receipt book, a manuscript entitled "A System of Theology," and a few likenesses of Giger.
SERIES I: SERMONS, 1842-1864
SERIES II: NOTEBOOKS, 1840-1852
SERIES III: MISCELLANEOUS, 1844-1856
Also available on microfilm: MFPOS 693 r.1-2.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: January 1992
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 285 | |
| SERIES I: SERMONS, 1842-1864 | |||
| 1 | 2 | 1842-1844 | |
| 1 | 3 | 1853-1854 | |
| 1 | 4 | 1856 | |
| 1 | 5 | 1857 | |
| 1 | 6 | 1858 | |
| 1 | 7 | 1858-1859 | |
| 1 | 8 | 1859 | |
| 1 | 9 | 1860 | |
| 1 | 10 | 1860-1861 | |
| 1 | 11 | 1861 | |
| 1 | 12 | 1862 | |
| 1 | 13 | 1863 | |
| 1 | 14 | 1864 | |
| 1 | 15-16 | Undated | |
| 1 | 17 | Sermons and Notes, undated | |
| 1 | 18 | Sermon Fragments and Notes, undated | |
| SERIES II: NOTEBOOKS, 1840-1852 | |||
| 1 | 19 | Notebook of Lectures on Architecture by Albert Baldwin Dod, 1840 | |
| 1 | 20 | Latin Notebook, 1852 | |
| 1 | 21 | Notebook, "Lectures on Architecture," undated | |
| SERIES III: MISCELLANEOUS, 1844-1856 | |||
| 1 | 22 | Receipt Book, 1844-1856 | |
| 1 | 23 | Manuscript, "System of Theology," undated | |
| 1 | 24 | Photographs, undated |