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John Caspar Wister, who was, as the Philadelphia Inquirer so aptly described him, the "dean of horticulturists" in the UnitedStates, was born on March 19, 1887, to William Rotch Wister and Mary Rebecca Eustis in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.
Publication Date
1998
City
Philadelphia
Disciplines
American Material Culture | American Studies | Cultural History | History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Gwiazda, Andy, "John Caspar Wister (1887-1982)" (1998). People and Places. 12.
https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/people_places/12
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