Henry William Stiegel

Henry William Stiegel

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birth_date = May 13, 1729
birth_place = Cologne
death_date = January 10, 1785
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Henry William Stiegel (May 13, 1729, probably at Cologne—January 10, 1785) was a German-American glassmaker and ironmaster. After arriving in Philadelphia in 1750 on a ship known as the "Nancy", Stiegel moved to what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. An active lay Lutheran and associate of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, he donated the land on which the Lutheran church in Manheim, Pennsylvania is now built.

"I Lift My Lamp" by Anna Balmer Myers is a historical novel about the early settlement of Lancaster County that features Henry William Stiegel and his glassworks in Manheim, a Mennonite Eby family, and the Ephrata Cloister.

References

*George L. Heiges, Henry William Stiegel and His Associates: A Story of Early American Industry, 1948, 227 pages.
*F. W. Hunter, "Baron Stiegel and American Glass," in "The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin", Vol. 8, No. 12 (Dec., 1913), pp. 258-261.

External links

* [http://manheimpa.com/town2.html Article on Stiegel from the Manheim Historical Society]
* [http://muweb.millersville.edu/~socanth/epfurnacehistory.html Pennsylvania Colonial Iron Production at Elizabeth Furnace: An Archaeological and Historical Analysis]


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