 Lutheran teacher training in the United States began in Perry County, Missouri; Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1839, 1846, and 1855 respectively.In 1857, the responsibility for the operation of the teachers seminary in Milwaukee was given to the denomination.Subsequently, the Milwaukee teachers seminary moved and merged operations with Fort Wayne uniting it with the theological seminary that had been founded there by followers of Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe.