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Wistar, Isaac Jones |
Date |
1827-1905 |
Description |
Isaac Jones Wistar, born on November 14, 1827 in Philadelphia, was a lawyer who managed the establishment of Philadelphia
map lithographer Robert Pearsall Smith between 1848 and 1849. Although a brief partnership, Smith & Wistar issued a small
number of maps with this imprint, including the noted J. C. Sidney "Map of the City of Philadelphia" (1849).
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Following his brief lithographic career, Wistar participated in the California Gold Rush, served as a Civil War Union General,
was a Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and founded the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology at the
University of Pennsylvania. He was also an author of several works, including his autobiography. Wistar died September 18,
1905 and was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
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Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
References |
See Smith, Robert Pearsall. |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Ristow, "The Map Publishing Career of Robert Pearsall Smith," The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, XXVI, 3, July
1969, 170-196
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Wistar, Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, 1827-1905 (1914) |