Han var sønn av Lorentz Eggen (?) og Else Møller (?).
Så gifter han seg like før emigrasjonen i 1865 med Henriette Frederica Rossow (1.8.1844 i Kristiania), finner ikke henne i Digitalarkivet.
Reverend i USA Johannes Muller-Eggen (20.4.1841 i Levanger - 30.4.1913 i Minneapolis ) var sønn av Lorentz Eggen () og Else Møller ().Gift 1865 med Henriette Frederica Rossow (1.8.1844 i Kristiania - 6.11.1899 i Lyle, Mower County, Minnesota), datter av ?Barn: Elizabeth H. Eggen Oas (1868–1951), Lauritz Muller Eggen (14.1.1871 i Racine–26.1.1940 i Austin, Mower County, Minnesota), Ragna Marie Eggen Wilson (18.2.1873 – 19.4.1959 i Mower County, Minnesota), Laura Andrea Eggen Waldeland (28.11.1876 i Luther Valley- 5.5.1961).Gift 2. i 1903 med Gunhild Thorsen (31 Jan 1845- 9.12.1920 i Lyle, Mower County, Minnesota).Johannes Møller Eggen frekventerte Tromsø seminar 1860-62 (seminarist). Han var grunnlegger og lærer av Trysil høiskole 1862-64. Ved Kristiania universitet 1864-66.Utvandret 1866 til Amerika, frekventerte Augustana Seminar i Paxton 1866-67 (C.T). Han ble ordinert til prest i Racine, Wisconsin 1867-72, Luther Valley ved Beloit i Wisconsin 1872-83, i Lyle Minnesota 1883-1906. Lærer ved Racine høyskole 1 år. Sekretær Norske Augustana synode 1870, sekretær ved konferansen, viseformann.Forfatter av "Skrøbelighetens synd", "Forlovelsen ", "Kvindens forhold til manden", "Missionens nødvendighed", "Tidernes tegn", "Patoralprædiken", "Kirkens synder", "Kirken er ikke Babel", "Et blik paa vor tid".Obituary REV. J. MULLER EGGEN;
Biografi; https://www.strindahistorielag.no/wiki/ ... ller_EggenRev. J. Muller Eggen, aged 72 years, died Wenesday afternoon, April 30, 1913, at the hospital in Minneapolis, where he had an operation the previous day. he had been in poor health for some time.He was born near Trondhjem, Norway April 20, 1841. He attended grammar school and the university and studied in a theological school one year. He was principal of a high school at Trysil for several years and in the summer of 1865 came to this country and spent a year at the theological school at Paxton, Ill. and was ordained in 1866 as a Lutheran minister. He was a pastor five years at Racine, Wis. 11 years at Luther Valley, Rock county, and in 1882 accepted the call of the Six Mile Grove church in Nevada, Mower county, and other churches in the vicinity. In 1905 on account of poor health he resigned the charge of these. He was for nine years secretary of the Conference and later vice president and president.He was married in 1865 to Henrietta Rossow. Eight children were born to them of whom six survive. Mrs. Eggen died in 1900 and Mr. Eggen in 1903 married Mrs. Gunhild Thorson. She survives. On account of his poor health they spent several winters in Alabama.Funeral services, largely attended, were held Saturday at Six Mile Grove church.
