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Title Muringer, Caspar
Alternate title Muringer, Gaspard
Date b. ca. 1806-ca. 1868
Description Caspar Muringer, born ca. 1806 in France, worked as an artist, lithographer, and merchant in Philadelphia from about 1847 (when lithographs with his imprint appeared in Thomas W. Gwilt Mapleson's "Pearls of American Poetry") to about 1861. Listed as a lithographer in Philadelphia city directories in the 1850s, his 1858 business address was given as 22 South Fifth Street; the same address as P. S. Duval's lithographic establishment. In 1861, he drew on stone, "In Defence [sic] of the Union and the Constitution," a certificate printed by P. S. Duval after a design by his future son-in-law and fellow French-born lithographic artist Christian Schussele. Together with lithographer Peter Kramer, he also printed the cartoon "Shadow of the Times" from his 253 North Eighth Street establishment. Beginning ca. 1862, Muringer operated a wine & liquor wholesale establishment, possibly until his death ca. 1868 (his wife was listed as a widow in the 1869 Philadelphia city directory).
Muringer was married to French-born Eva Salome (b. ca. 1821) with whom he had lithographer son Emile (b. ca. 1834), and three daughters, all born in France except for Lydia (b. ca. 1849, Pennsylvania). By 1850, the family, and boarder lithographer Christian Schussele, resided on North Eighth Street in the North Mulberry Ward of the city. Schussele married Muringer's daughter Cecilia (ca. 1838-1916) and the couple lived with the Muringers through the 1860s, along with their daughters Eva (b. ca. 1856) and Mary (b. ca. 1862). Presumably after Caspar Muringer's death ca. 1865, his family traveled with Schussele to France to seek a cure for the palsy that afflicted his right hand. The Muringer family returned on the Ville de Paris ship en-route to New York from Le Havre, France in May 1868 and by 1870 the Muringer and Schussele families resided again in Philadelphia, north of Center City (Ward 14).
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Duval, P.S.; Kramer, Peter ; and Schussele, Christian.
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 1850, 1860, 1870
Groce & Wallace, 461
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Philadelphia Business & City Directories, 1852-1869 (intermittently)
WWWAA, 2369