Meisel, Augustus (December 12, 1824 - January 24, 1885)

Augustus Meisel (December 12, 1824 - January 24, 1885) was a German-American lithographer active in Boston during the mid-19th century. Born in Baden, Germany, Meisel immigrated to the United States United States with his brother Berthold (December 10, 1831 - April 5, 1915). The pair arrived in New Orleans on December 5, 1848. They were 48ers, those middle-class Germans who emigrated to the United States to avoid persecution associated with participating in the failed 1848 Springtime of the Peoples Revolutions. Augustus became a naturalized American citizen on September 3, 1855, with Berthold receiving his citizenship a little over a month later. The brothers worked together as lithographers in Boston until Augustus's death. He died January 24, 1885 of pneumonia.