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Generation III · Son of Arnold Weppner

August F. Weppner

26 Aug 1854 – 13 Oct 1930

Facts

Born
26 Aug 1854, Buffalo, New York
Died
13 Oct 1930, Buffalo, New York
Also known as
Augustus Francis Weppner
Work
Proprietor of “the oldest and leading meat market in Buffalo”; the Ellicott Square Market, meats and poultry (1900)

Their story

An 1898 county history says his market was established by his father in 1845 and that August had run it at its present location since 1878, “steadily growing in popularity and patronage.” It called him “a man of strict integrity” with “a high reputation as a business man and citizen.” In 1900 the city directory lists him as proprietor of the Ellicott Square Market, meats and poultry, at 16 South Division Street, with another meat market at 12 South Division. He lived at 22 Holland Place. He married twice: on 13 February 1877 Carolina Christina Barbara Becker, who died in June 1881 after giving him two sons, Arnold Henry and Robert Arthur; and on 14 November 1888 Josephine P. Gebhard, with whom he had nine more children. A 1931 history describes him as a successful retail meat dealer who had lived retired for some years before his death on 13 October 1930. His sons went into banking and the law.

His baptism record, as indexed by FamilySearch, gives his birth as 26 August 1854, and he was baptized the next day; a 1931 history gives 11 August. WikiTree gives 15 October 1930 for his death; the 1931 history, followed here, gives 13 October.

Their lifetime

  1. 1854August F. Weppner is born on 26 August.
  2. 1855Nearly half of Buffalo's 74,000 residents are German-speaking. Buffalo
  3. 1859German and French Catholics open the United German & French Cemetery. Buffalo
  4. 1870German Jesuits found Canisius College. Buffalo
  5. 1877August F. Weppner marries Carolina Becker, who dies four years later.
  6. 1878August F. Weppner starts running the meat market at the spot where it still stood in 1898.
  7. 1878Arnold Henry Weppner is born.
  8. 1879Robert Arthur Weppner is born.
  9. 1888August F. Weppner marries Josephine Gebhard on 14 November.
  10. 1889Harold Edward Weppner is born.
  11. 1892Ruth Josephine Weppner is born.
  12. 1894Oliver Augustus Weppner is born.
  13. 1896Grace Blondine Adele Weppner is born.
  14. 1896The Ellicott Square Building opens, the largest office building in the world at the time. Buffalo
  15. 1897Mildred Marie Weppner Salter is born.
  16. 1900Arnold Weppner's Sons pack beef and pork on Guilford Street, Francis runs the Weppner Provision Co., and August runs the Ellicott Square Market.
  17. 1900Ralph F. Weppner is born.
  18. 1901The Pan-American Exposition; President McKinley is shot at the Temple of Music. Buffalo
  19. 1903Paul E. Weppner is born.
  20. 1904The German Bank, controlled by the same Boston promoter, fails in December. Buffalo
  21. 1905Arthur Weppner is born.
  22. 1907Theodore John Weppner is born.
  23. 1918The German-American Bank renames itself Liberty Bank. Buffalo
  24. 1926Paul E. Weppner graduates from the University of Buffalo Law School.
  25. 1930August F. Weppner, the retired meat dealer, dies on 13 October.