They created the Wistar rat. Wisteria is named after their family. Ishtar and Moloch are their gods. Wistar isn't even their real name.
All descended from a Glass making, beer selling Jew from the Palatinate in Germany.
Caspar Wistar, the son of forester Hans Caspar Wüster,[4] spent his first 21 years in Waldhilsbach, a village in the Palatinate near Heidelberg under the reign of prince Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1658-1716). According to family tradition, he was born in the village's forester’s house.[5] He grew up during the tumultuous Nine Years' War (1688-1697) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713) which caused hardships and instability for the people of the Palatinate due to invasions by the French and British.
Wistar served as a foresters' apprentice, but government reforms (particularly pay cuts for foresters) limited his professional opportunities, so he decided to emigrate to the United States.[6] He left the Palatinate in 1717, forgoing his father’s hereditary title and position to seek out a new life across the Atlantic Ocean.[7]
He arrived in Pennsylvania in 1717 (according to his memoir, with only nine pennies to his name).[6] Upon his arrival, he was registered under the surname "Wistar". He worked at various manual trades, including soapmaking and the manufacture of brass buttons.[8]
He became a British subject in 1724 and joined the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers) in 1726. He married Catherine Jansen in 1727; they had seven children.[9] With the support of Quaker merchants and political leaders, he set up a glass factory and began buying land and selling it to new immigrants from Germany. His land deals made him one of the richest men in Pennsylvania.
His brother, John (born Johannes Wüster) (1708–1789) emigrated to Philadelphia in 1727. His brother Johannes WÜSTER) (John WISTER (1708–1789)) settled in the Germantown district, and was registered under a variant of the surname, “Wister.” To this day there exists two spellings of the family name.[10] While Caspar anglicized his name to "Wistar", John spelled his "Wister". The two each founded prominent Philadelphia-area families, and the difference in spelling persisted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Wistar_(glassmaker)