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Generation III · Son of Arnold Weppner

Jacob Charles Weppner

Jul 1855 – 24 Nov 1930

Facts

Born
Jul 1855, Buffalo, New York
Died
24 Nov 1930, Buffalo, New York

Their story

Born in Buffalo in July 1855. Census takers found him as a boy in the city's 10th ward in 1860 and in the 4th ward in 1870 and 1875. On 14 September 1879 he married Maria Elisabeth (Mary) Bapst, and their only child, Louis, was born the next year. Mary died in 1894. In 1900 he lived with his father at 1165 Main Street; later censuses place him in the 15th ward in 1910 and the 23rd in 1915 and 1920. He died on 24 November 1930.

Their lifetime

  1. 1855Jacob Charles Weppner is born in Buffalo, New York.
  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. 1880Louis Eugene Weppner is born.
  6. 1896The Ellicott Square Building opens, the largest office building in the world at the time. Buffalo
  7. 1901The Pan-American Exposition; President McKinley is shot at the Temple of Music. Buffalo
  8. 1904The German Bank, controlled by the same Boston promoter, fails in December. Buffalo
  9. 1918The German-American Bank renames itself Liberty Bank. Buffalo
  10. 1930Jacob Charles Weppner dies in Buffalo, New York.