Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

[Steve/sewell]

RE: Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

Page 19 shows us the name of Sarah Wistar.
She remained single and lived untill the year1812 the same year of our second war with Great Britain.
On the bottom of this sheet are the names of John Pohl and Jerimiah Warder.
They rented ground for a store as they were merchants I have News paper clippings to back this up.

 

[Steve/sewell]

RE: Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

Page 20 again mentions the term by his wifes legacy.

 

[Steve/sewell]

RE: Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

Thats all for now enjoy,this also should be in a museum not my house as it is a living legacy of our first glass house's financial status and the investors who made it all happen.Wistarburghs location is still really untoched by modern progress it is a nice place to visit on a weekend.

 

[cyberdigger]

RE: Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

..like I said.. I love this place..

 

[Steve/sewell]

RE: Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

From the book The Wistarburgh Glassworks New Jersey 1739-1776.by Arlene Palmer Assistant curator at the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur museum.On page two she shows part of the will Caspar Wistar made.If you look at the layout of the will it was drafted by the same person who made this ledger I have shown you which was also part of Caspars estate when he passed away.The hand writing to the hand drawn verticle lines to the dotted horozontal lines this last will and testament was drawn up by Catherine his Daughter.It is unmistakable.

 

[Steve/sewell]

RE: Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

A closeup of the will.You can make out the Words tumblers, glasses,gallon,quarts, window glass ect.

 

[Poison_Us]

RE: Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

You always come up with the coolest stuff.[&:]

 

[Steve/sewell]

RE: Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

This ledger ended up in England because of Dr.Wistar Richards son studied medicine there for quite a while.

A little history about Casper Wistar M.D.

Born in 1761 to Richard Wistar and Sarah (Wyatt) Wistar,he was inspired to become a doctor at the age of 16 as he attended the wounded during the War for Independence at the Battle of Germantown. Classically educated at the Public School of Philadelphia, he was soon studying with local physicians and in 1779 entered the University of Pennsylvania. Graduating with an examination reputed to be one of the best ever at the University, Wistar went abroad, studying anatomy with John Hunter in London for a year and then on to the medical school at Edinburgh. His academic performance was outstanding and his fellow students elected him president of the Royal Medical Society and the Edinburgh Natural History Society.

While in England his father Richard was beaten by a mob of the rebels in Philadelphia in1781.He was thought to be a Torrie sympathiser and they also burned down his mansion on Market Street.This would explain how the Wistar Will and last testament and this financial ledger in my possesion ended up in England.When Richard fled Philadelphia for Rahway in Northern New Jersey he was near death.He sent all of the Wistar papers to England to his son Caspar for safe keeping.These statements are on file in the Pennsylvania Historical Society.All of the above events are stated to be true by Colonel Isaac Jones Wistar famous Civil war hero and Railroad tycoon.Richard was his Grandfather Dr.Caspar Wistar his uncle Richard died in Rahway.Dr.Wistar graduated with the degree of M.D. from Edinburgh in 1786 and, after walking the Highlands of Scotland, returned to Philadelphia in 1787. Within four months he was elected a junior fellow at the newly formed College of Physicians. Soon after, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society, and appointed to the Philadelphia Dispensary as an attending physician. Wistar succeeded Benjamin Rush as professor of chemistry at the College of Philadelphia, and married Isabella Marshall in the same year. Sorrow followed too soon; Isabella died in 1790.
When the college's faculty merged with that of the University of Pennsylvania in 1792, Wistar became an adjunct professor in anatomy, midwifery and surgery. In his own practice, oblivious to rank and social status, with an empathetic, respectful and comforting manner, Wistar tirelessly researched his patients' illnesses and developed treatments. Peers describe Wistar as a man patient in the search for truth--intellectually "strong rather than brilliant." This intellectual strength of seeking truth by studying broadly, with patience and without prejudice, would serve him well in the year to come.
The year 1793 was an eventful one for Wistar. He became a staff member at the Pennsylvania Hospital and was elected curator at the APS. Autumn brought one of the worst yellow fever epidemics in city history. Though more than half the population left, Wistar stayed in town assisting Dr. Rush. But when Wistar himself became ill with the fever, he asked Dr. Adam Kuhn to treat him, and survived. Subsequently Wistar dismissed the methods of bleeding and purging endorsed by Rush.
Until Wistar’s day, anatomical textbooks came from overseas. But in 1811 he completed and published the first volume of A System of Anatomy for the Use of Students of Medicine; the second volume was published in 1814. As a member of the American Philosophical Society beginning in 1787, Wistar was well placed socially as well as academically, sharing in many of the society’s activities and assuming its presidency in 1815. In this venue he undertook the first comparative study of vertebrate fossils in America, publishing in 1799 a detailed study of the Megalonyx bones that Thomas Jefferson had brought to the society’s members in 1797.
Wistar is perhaps most famous for his salons, which continue to this day in his honor, now known as Wistar Parties. In 1798, at the age of 37, Wistar had married Elizabeth Mifflin and, by 1799 or 1800, the couple was regularly entertaining on Sunday evenings at their home at Fourth & Prune (today's Locust) Streets. Wistar, a naturally good host, invited members of the APS as well as renowned visitors to the city. Guests described the evenings as "intellectual banquets," with a modest, comfortable atmosphere. With a guest list including the scientific elite of the city, if not the country, Wistar was known to subtly guide conversations towards the fields of expertise of his guests and keep the tone from becoming overly technical and pretentious.
It is said that Wistar used his self-control and constant drive for self-improvement to overcome his temper and develop a poise which rarely left him. It had done so when he was a young man; a duel in which he took part risked his obtaining permission in 1783 to study abroad. In like manner, aware that nature had not made him an exceptional teacher, he worked hard to improve; he succeeded in developing a clear, charismatic style. Ultimately, his passion for his subject inspired so large a number of students that it was necessary to schedule multiple subdivisions of his "bone classes" in which large models of bones were displayed. Caspar Wistar had become an exceptional teacher, famous for his anatomy lectures, and honored as a person.
In the spring of 1803, when Caspar Wistar received a letter from President Jefferson, he was teaching anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania and was vice-president of the American Philosophical Society (APS). Wistar and Jefferson were friends and had worked together on the collection and identification of the bones of the megalonyx, as well as on several other scientific projects.1 Most likely, the conversation of Wistar and Lewis was of many things, including fossils, and the chance for Lewis to hunt along the banks of the Missouri for signs of prehistoric life. In July 1803, after Lewis had left Philadelphia, Wistar sent Jefferson a list of general questions to be forwarded to Lewis that were pertinent to the expedition's goals. The list has never been found.

 

[Steve/sewell]

RE: Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

Daniel Wistar Caspars nephew was a prominent citizen in the day as he was a colonial Note signer.Citizens chosen to sign currency were the upper crust in terms of stature,fortitude and outstanding personal qualities.Here is a colonial note signed by Daniel.His Signature is the one in black to the right.


He signed over $7,000,000 in paper notes for the new United States of America.
Here is a 45 dollar note printed at Hall and Sellers in 1779.Hall and Sellers purchased the printing bindery shop from
Benjamin Franklin.Hall and Sellers printed 50 percent of the continental currency in the mid to late 1700s.
Daniel Wistar was the son of John Wister Caspers the glassmakers brother.When John followed his brothers footsteps into
America he to moved to Philadelphia but when he arrived the person or agency in charge of tracking immigrants
spelled his name Wister instead of Wistar.John had a very sucessfull Wine and Liquor business.He purchased bottles from Caspar.
His son Daniel Wistar (he spelled it both ways apparently) was a signer on all 45 dollar notes over 8000 of them
in over 300 series he along with Robert Cather signed more of the bills 45$s and over then any other citizen.
Here is a 45$ dollar note signed by Daniel Wistar in black on the right and Robert Cather in Red on the left.
The red rectangle area on the left front Says in large letters THE UNITED STATES, across the top with the black back ground it says
Of NORTH AMERICA,on the right hand border with black back ground again it says THE UNITED STATES and last the bottom border reads OF NORTH AMERICA.,The bill number is 182020
The bill reads as follows:
Forty-five Dollars
The bearer is enti
led to receive Forty
five Dollars or an equal
Sum in Gold or Sil
ver,according to a Re
solution Congress
of the 14th January
1779
45 DOLLARS
The bill is signed by
R.Cather D. wistar
The reverse side of the bill is plain.

The back side reads Forty-five Dollars
Printed by HALL and
SELLERS 1779

 

[Steve/sewell]

RE: Caspar Wistar February 3, 1696 – March 21, 1752

The reverse side of the note.Hall and Sellers took over Ben Franklins print shop.David Hall bought out Ben Franklin in 1766 and added William Sellers later in the same year.