Bibliography
Everything asserted on this site traces to one of these. Two of the most important items are not digitised and would have to be ordered.
- Find a Grave — Carl Gottlob Miessler, Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Benton County, Missouri
- Find a Grave memorial 20829858 — Rev Friedrich Theodore Miessler Names his father Carl Gottlob, his mother Caroline Augusta Berger, and his brother Ernst. The single load-bearing document for this family's structure.
- Find a Grave memorial 155476280 — Rev William Richard Miessler
- Find a Grave memorial 41474143 — Richard Norbert Miessler
- Find a Grave memorial 56292486 — 2LT Wilfred Eugene Miessler
- Find a Grave — Dr Ernest Gustav Herman Miessler, Wunder's Cemetery, Chicago
- St Peter Lutheran Church, Deshler, Nebraska — congregational history Pastor succession lists 'Wm. R. Miessler … until the end of 1942'.
- Edward L. Keiser, Lutheran Mission Work Among the American Indians (1922), pp. 63–92 The fullest free account of the Bethany mission, and notably critical of Miessler.
- Clio — Bethany Lutheran Indian Cemetery, Gratiot County, Michigan
- E. G. H. Miessler, 'Pioneer Lutheran Missionary to the Chippewas: Autobiography of E. G. H. Miessler 1826–1916', Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly 52 (Winter 1979): 146–174 Not digitised. The Clarke Historical Library typescript is catalogued as translated by his grandson — that translator is not yet identified.
- Harold W. Moll, ed., The German Lutheran Bethany Indian Mission (1989), 3 vols; vol. 2 is Miessler's letters, 1851–1868 Not digitised.
- Treaty with the Chippewa of Saginaw etc., 1855
- Treaty with the Chippewa of Saginaw, Swan Creek and Black River, 1864
- Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways — Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe The tribe's own account. Cited so this record is not only the missionaries' version.
- Christoph's database of Silesian evangelical church books
- Family account — Daniel Miessler, 2026 Oral history from the grandson, recorded here as such. It supplied two corrections the documents alone did not give: that Richard Norbert was a cook rather than aircrew, and that Wilfred died in a training accident. Both are consistent with the paper record.
- Deutsches Familiennamenwörterbuch / standard German onomastic references Not yet consulted directly — the surname etymology below rests on commercial aggregators and is labelled accordingly.
The two documents that would change this record
The missionary's autobiography, published in the Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly in 1979 from a typescript his grandson translated, and his letters from the mission years, printed as the second volume of Harold Moll's 1989 edition. Neither is online. Together they would move this record from well-sourced web genealogy to primary-source family history.