Английская Википедия:Charles Stewart Wurts

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Charles Stewart Wurts (1790–1859) 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.[1] Along with his brothers, he helped launch the anthracite industry in America.

Born in Flanders, New Jersey, 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.[1]

In 1823, he helped found the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company along with his brothers William (1788–1858), Maurice (1783–1854), and John Wurts (1792–1861).

Charles married Mary Van Uxem (1802–1877) in 1828; among their children was Charles Stewart Wurts II (1830–??), who married Mary S. Wood (??-1883).[2]

He died in 1859 and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.[3]

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