Autobiographical notes manuscript Circa 1892 / Isaac Jones Wistar.

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Autobiographical notes manuscript Circa 1892 / Isaac Jones Wistar.

Philadelphia, 1892. Memoirs, much of which is devoted to the opening and development of the far West from 1849 to 1860

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Wistar, Isaac J. (Isaac Jones), 1827-1905

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Isaac Jones Wistar was born in Philadelphia and educated at the Friends' Select School and Haverford College. He ran a dry goods store in Philadelphia, but in 1849 he travelled West with Dr. William Gambel as assistant curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. From the description of Autobiography, 1892. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122597453 ...