Hans Caspar Wüster1

M, #18, b. 19 February 1696
Last Edited: 6 Sep 2016

Parents:

Father: Hans Caspar Wüster1 b. 5 Apr 1671
Mother: Anna Catharina Müller1 b. 17 Dec 1671, d. 24 May 1743

Family:

Anna Catharina Jansen

Notes

  • Name Variation: Caspar Wistar; In American documents3
  • Immigration*: 16 September 1717; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania4
  • Note*: Hans Caspar Wistar (1696-1752) immigrated in 1717, became a button merchant, joined the Quakers, became a partner in an iron furnace, working with a German partner imported rifles and other goods, purchased large tracts from the Penn family when they were in need, and sold lots to many German immigrants, established the glass manufacture in Salem, N.J., and died extremely wealthy, and well respected in the German and British communities.5

Citations

  1. [S9] Beiler, Rosalind F., Immigrant and Entrepreneur : The Atlantic World of Caspar Wister, 1650-1750. Penn. State Univ. Press, 2008, p. 181, citing Bammental reformierte Kirchenbuch. Evangelisches Oberkirchenrat, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  2. [S9] Beiler, Rosalind F., Immigrant and Entrepreneur : The Atlantic World of Caspar Wister, 1650-1750. Penn. State Univ. Press, 2008, p. 107-8, 181, citing Abington Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania, transcripts, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
  3. [S9] Beiler, Rosalind F., Immigrant and Entrepreneur : The Atlantic World of Caspar Wister, 1650-1750. Penn. State Univ. Press, 2008, p. 15.
  4. [S9] Beiler, Rosalind F., Immigrant and Entrepreneur : The Atlantic World of Caspar Wister, 1650-1750. Penn. State Univ. Press, 2008, p. 87, citing Caspar Wistar's "Short Report", ie "Ein kortzer Bericht von Casper Wistar," Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
  5. [S9] Beiler, Rosalind F., Immigrant and Entrepreneur : The Atlantic World of Caspar Wister, 1650-1750. Penn. State Univ. Press, 2008.