Generation II · Married Barbara Weppner Fougeron
Joseph Fougeron
5 Aug 1821 – 12 Nov 1892
Facts
- Born
- 5 Aug 1821
- Died
- 12 Nov 1892
- Work
- Grocer; the Fougeron store, 127 Niagara Street
Their story
From an old French farming family of Buffalo. His grocery and market on Niagara Street passed through several generations of Fougerons.
Their lifetime
- 1821Joseph Fougeron is born.
- 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
- 1831Barbara Weppner is born at Pfeddersheim on 28 June.
- 1832Buffalo is chartered as a city; cholera kills more than 120 people by July. Buffalo
- 1834The Weppners sail from Le Havre on the François I, land at New York on 23 August and reach Buffalo on 18 September.
- 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
- 1842A treaty gives up the Seneca's Buffalo Creek Reservation, which bordered the city. Buffalo
- 1845The Elk Street Market opens; butchers come to fill most of its stalls. Buffalo
- 1849Barbara Weppner marries Joseph Fougeron, a Niagara Street grocer, on 23 October.
- 1855Nearly half of Buffalo's 74,000 residents are German-speaking. Buffalo
- 1859German and French Catholics open the United German & French Cemetery. Buffalo
- 1870German Jesuits found Canisius College. Buffalo
- 1892Joseph Fougeron dies.