Frederick Wendt, Sr. and Nancy Gates

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Husband Frederick Wendt, Sr. ¹

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   Other Spouse: Charlotte Eichbaum (      -      ) 1

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Wife Nancy Gates ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Frederick Wendt, Sr.

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He emigrated from Hanover, Prussia, to America, after the Revolutionary War but prior to 1800, settling for a short time in New York, after which he came to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was employed by James O'Hara in his glass works. Later he, with several other gentlemen, among them William Eichbaum and Christian Ihmsen, established the Birmingham Glass Company, at what was then Birmingham, later known as the South Side, Pittsburgh. In this enterprise he was very successful and continued at the business until his death, acquiring a large amount of South Side real estate, and was identified with various enterprises.

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General Notes: Wife - Nancy Gates

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from Hagerstown, Washington Co, MD

She was a niece of General Horatio Gates.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 146.