Henry William Stiegel

Henry William Stiegel (May 13, 1729 in Cologne, Germany – January 10, 1785 in Pennsylvania, USA) was a German-American glassmaker and ironmaster.

[1] He immigrated to British North America in 1750 with his mother and younger brother, Anthony (his father and other siblings had died).

Elizabeth Huber Stiegel died on February 13, 1758, only ten days after giving birth to their second daughter.

[3] He led the fundraising efforts to secure the plot of land on which the Society's first building was eventually erected.

[5] In 1934 the Lancaster County Historical Society erected a memorial to Stiegel in Manheim, Pennsylvania.

Pocket bottle attributed to Henry William Stiegel and the American Flint Glass Manufactory, 1769-1774
18th-century enameled bottle of the "Stiegel-type", in this case American.