| Title |
Wiest, Daniel |
| Alternate title |
Weist, Daniel |
| Date |
b. ca. 1842 |
| Description |
Daniel Wiest, born circa 1842 in Bayern, Germany, worked as a lithographic artist for the Philadelphia firm Bowen & Company
in the mid 1860s. Wiest specialized in entomological drawings and was active until about 1870. He is probably the Daniel Wiest
elected a member of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia in 1861. He was also the artist for "In Memory of Abraham Lincoln.
The Reward of the Just" issued by Philadelphia publisher William Smith in 1865.
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In 1870, he lived in North Philadelphia (Ward 20), with his wife Lizzie (b. ca. 1844), daughter Bertha (b. ca. 1868 in Pennsylvania),
and most likely his parents, Henry, a tailor (b. ca. 1806 in Bayern), and Anna (b. ca. 1810 in France).
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1870 |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
