Person:Casper Wistar (2)

Notes

• he was the first person to have made glass in America

1. ↑ Saturday Evening Post.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Caspar Wistar (glassmaker), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
   last accessed May 2025.

   Caspar Wistar (born Caspar Wüster) (February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752) was a Holy Roman Empire-born glassmaker and landowner in Pennsylvania. ...

3.   Folk Artists Biographical Index. First edition. Edited by George H. Meyer. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. (FolkA).

   Name: Wistar, Casper
   Born in Waldhilsbach, Heidelberg, Baden, Germany 3 Feb 1696
   
   Christening: 19 Feb 1696, Location: Bammental, Heidelberg, Baden
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   Marriage to Katharine JOHNSON OR JANSEN, 25 May 1726, Germantown, , , Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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   Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 21 Mar 1752
   
   Burial Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
   
   Father: Jacob Weister
   Mother:
   Spouse: Anna Catherine Zimmerman
   Children: Maria
   CASPAR
   Maria Barbara
   Anna Barbara
   Albertine(A)
   Dorothea
   Maria Margaretha
   John(Johannes)
   Johann Ludovick
   George Bernhardt