Generation III · Daughter of Arnold Weppner
Emma Mary Weppner
1863 – 14 Jun 1933
Facts
- Born
- 1863
- Died
- 14 Jun 1933, Buffalo, New York
- Also known as
- Emma Weppner Abel
Their story
She married Frank John Abel on 26 September 1888, and they had eight children: Barbara, who died as a baby in 1889; Mary M. (1891–1969); Lilian Josephine (1893–1975); Paul Louis (1895–1950); F. Jeannette (1898–1995), who married Ralph Joseph Wolf; Hilda Dolores (1900–1974); Caroline Blondine (1903–1988); and Louisa Catherine (1905–1975), who married John Murphy Nathan. In 1921 Lilian married Howard C. Herger, a brother of Mary Louise Herger, who had married Lilian's cousin Elmer Kraus Weppner the year before.
Their lifetime
- 1863Emma Mary Weppner is born.
- 1870German Jesuits found Canisius College. Buffalo
- 1896The Ellicott Square Building opens, the largest office building in the world at the time. Buffalo
- 1901The Pan-American Exposition; President McKinley is shot at the Temple of Music. Buffalo
- 1904The German Bank, controlled by the same Boston promoter, fails in December. Buffalo
- 1918The German-American Bank renames itself Liberty Bank. Buffalo
- 1933Emma Mary Weppner dies in Buffalo, New York.