Charles Stewart Wurts
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Charles Stewart Wurts
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Charles Stewart Wurts was a founder of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, which built the Delaware and Hudson Canal and later became the Delaware and Hudson Railway. Along with his brothers, he helped launch the anthracite industry in America. Born in Flanders, New Jersey on August 8, 1790, he was a son of John Wurts (1744–1793) and Sarah Grandin; and a grandson of Johannes Conrad Wirz (1706–1763), who founded the Wurts family in America. As a youth, Wurts moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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American businessman (1790–1859)
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2024-03-12T13:35:52Z
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