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United States Kirstein migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Kirstein Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Jacob Kirstein, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1844 1
  • John Charles Kirstein, who arrived in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1875 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Kirstein (post 1700) +

  • Lincoln Edward Kirstein (1907-1996), American writer, impresario, art connoisseur and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • Rosemary Kirstein, American science fiction writer
  • Peter N. Kirstein, American historian, professor of history at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois
  • Michael A. Kirstein, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1996 2
  • Louis M. Kirstein, American politician, Mayor of Revere, Massachusetts, 1953 2
  • Albert F. Kirstein, American politician, Member of New Jersey State House of Assembly from Union County, 1908-09 2
  • Roland Kirstein (b. 1965), German economist, professor of Business Administration at the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg, Germany
  • Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  2. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 6) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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