George Ludwig Anshutz and Catherine Elizabeth Gerber

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Husband George Ludwig Anshutz ¹

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           Born: 1753 - Zinsweiller, Germany 1
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           Died: 1837 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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       Marriage: 11 Apr 1780 - Niederbronn, Germany 1

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Wife Catherine Elizabeth Gerber ¹

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           Born: 22 Jun 1757 1
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           Died: 14 Dec 1835 1
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Children

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1 F Anna Maria Dorothy Anshutz ²

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           Born: 1788 - Zinsweiller, Germany 1
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         Spouse: Martin Rahm (1776-1836) 2
           Marr: 20 Jan 1806 - Huntingdon Co, PA 1

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General Notes: Husband - George Ludwig Anshutz

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He was a member of a wealthy burgher family in Alsace, who had been engaged in the manufacture of iron for generations. He came to America with his family and brother John Philip Anshutz on the ship "Fair American," Captain Benjamin Lee, from Amsterdam, docking at Philadelphia, September 12, 1791. He had letters of endorsement from John Von Deitrich, Peer in the Holy Roman Empire, Count of Steinthal, Sovereign of the City of Reichshoffen, and honorary mayor of the city of Strasburg, April 27, 1791. Mr. Anshutz came to the city of Pittsburgh and built the first blast furnace in the Pittsburgh district, near Shadyside, East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was supposed there was iron ore in the neighborhood sufficient for the purpose, but as it had to be brought down the Allegheny River from near Kiskiminetas, this proved too expensive. It was abandoned after the "Whiskey Insurrection," when the soldiers camped nearby and burned his supply of wood used for charcoal. He then went to Westmoreland County and ran the Probst furnace for its owners. Poor iron ore again caused him to search further. He finally found better ore in Huntingdon County and moved there in 1795 and built the first furnace in the then undeveloped Juniata iron region. About 1795 he became a partner with Judge John Gloninger and Mordecai Massey in the Huntingdon Furnace and remained there as manager and part owner until he retired in 1832 on account of old age. He was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, was naturalized in Huntingdon County, August 24, 1802, as a former subject of the King of France.

He and his wife were the parents of eight children, the fifth of whom was Anna Maria Dorothy Anshutz.

1 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 349.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 348.