Generation I · Brother of Augustus Weppner
Arnold Weppner
14 Mar 1774 – 21 Jun 1840
Facts
- Born
- 14 Mar 1774, Westhofen, near Worms
- Died
- 21 Jun 1840, Wehrheim, in the Taunus
- Also known as
- Arnoldus Weppner
Their story
Augustus's older brother, born at Westhofen on 14 March 1774 and baptized two days later. On 4 February 1798 he married eighteen-year-old Susanna Neter at St. Mary's Church in Landau, in the Palatinate. She died soon afterward, and they had no children. He married twice more, to Anna Maria Treutel and then to Carolina Philippina Schmelzer, and had at least seven children, some of whom died young. His household appears in the family registers of the city of Mainz, where Augustus married his first wife in 1811. Arnold died a widower at Wehrheim, in the Taunus hills north of Frankfurt, on 21 June 1840. Augustus had named his own third son Arnold in 1825.
Their lifetime
- 1774Arnold Weppner is born in Westhofen, near Worms.
- 1825The Erie Canal opens, with Buffalo as its western terminus. Buffalo
- 1829St. Louis Church is founded for the city's French, German and Irish Catholics. Buffalo
- 1832Buffalo is chartered as a city; cholera kills more than 120 people by July. Buffalo
- 1834Cholera returns to a city of nearly 15,000, and people who can afford to leave do. Buffalo
- 1837Der Weltbürger, Buffalo's first German-language newspaper, begins publishing. Buffalo
- 1840Augustus's brother Arnold dies at Wehrheim, in the Taunus, on 21 June.