Pvt. Christopher Demuth

DAR# A031741

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Biography
Christoph Demuth made his home in Lancaster, PA, where , in 1767, he married Elizabeth Hartaffel, a daughter of a tobacco manufacturer. In 1770, Christopher Demuth purchased his father-in-law s business and established Demuth Tobacco Shop. This is the famous Lancaster tobacco shop, situated at 114 East King Street, the oldest establishment of its kind in the United States which has been maintained by the same family from its inception to date.

Christoph Demuth was not onkly a successful businessman, but also found time to serve as a private in Captain Jacob Krug's Company of Colonel Matthias Slaughs' Batattalion, Lancaster County Rifleman. in 1777.

Christioph and Elizabeth Demuth had a large family, consisting of ten children. Christoph's son, Jacob Demuth (1779-1842), who succceeded his father as proprietor of the tobacco shop, was married three times, fathering a total of twenty children. It is noteworthy that among the twenty children were several amateur artsits of talent. One of their descendants was the famed painter Charles Demuth (1883-1935.

Sources
Rechcigl, Miloslav, Jr., "The Demuth Genealogy Revisited. Moravian Brethren Family from Czechoslovakia," Journal of Lancaster County Historical Society, 92, No. 2 (1989), pp. 55-68.

Rechcigl, Miloslav, Jr., The Demuth Genealogy: A Moravian Brethren Family from Czechoslovakia," in "Czechs and Slovaks in America. Boulder, CO: East European Monogaphs, and New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, pp. 149-150.

Rechcigl, Miloslav, Jr., "Moravskobratrsti Demuthove z Karlova a jejich poromci v Americe," in: Sborbik IV. Konference Moravian v roce 2006. Edice Moravan, svazek 7, Suchdol nad Odrou: Moravian, 2009, pp. 48-67.

Rechcígl, Miloslav, Jr., "The Demuth Family from Moravia and Their Descendants", Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, 2000. https://www.svu2000.org/cs-america/demuth-family/

Wenger, Diane. "Christopher Demuth." In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 1, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck. German Historical Institute. Last modified August 09, 2013. http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=125

Holahan, Jane. "Demuth Family Portraits Have New Home at Museum." Lancaster Online, April 12, 2013. http://lancasteronline.com/news/demuth-family-portraits-have-a-new-...

Diane Wenger. “Christopher Demuth: From ‘Single Brother’ to Celebrated Snuff Maker.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 141, no. 2, 2017, pp. 115–144. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5215/pennmaghistbio.141.2.0115.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Notable_Czech_and_Slovak_Ameri...

https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/christopher-demuth/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20656127/christopher-demuth

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Demuth-137

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Gravesite Details In Memory of Christopher Demath died. Born the 19' of Sept. 1738 & died the 7' of September 1818.

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Christoph Demuth made his home in Lancaster, PA, where , in 1767, he married Elizabeth Hartaffel, a daughter of a tobacco manufacturer. In 1770, Christopher Demuth purchased his father-in-law

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Possible brother? Mathias Demuth