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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

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The Story of Charles Weiser and Karl Friedrich Feiser

Charles feiser was born on march 20 second 18 24 in the city of ludwigsburg, within the stutgart region of southern germany. As a young man, he apprenticed in an apothecary and became obsessed with the study of chemistry. He so became fascinated with the united states, back then only a few decades as an independent nation. And so in the fall of 18 forty eight charles weiser boarded a ship in bremen and sailed to the united States. Joining him was his cousin, charles erhart. They were just two of almost half a million germans who emigrated to the united states in that decade,. The start

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