 Meanwhile, the Baron had also sold half his land to the Harmonites, a pietist sect led by Johann Georg Rapp and his brother Frederick, who then founded Harmony, Pennsylvania, but eventually sold their colony to Abraham Zeigler who moved it further west, to New Harmony, Indiana.Young Passavant and Wenzel crossed the Allegheny Mountains to attend Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.In addition to his studies, Passavant taught Sunday school and sold subscriptions to the "Lutherische Kirchenzeitung" (published in Philadelphia beginning in 1838), as well as an English-language Reform magazine, the "Observer."