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Generation IV · Son of August F. Weppner

Oliver Augustus Weppner

15 Mar 1894 – 17 Oct 1964

Facts

Born
15 Mar 1894, Buffalo, New York
Died
17 Oct 1964, Buffalo, New York
Also known as
Ollie
Work
Banker: assistant vice president of the Marine Trust Company (1931)
Schooling
St. Louis parochial school (1908); Lafayette High School (1912)

Their story

Son of August F. Weppner and Josephine P. Gebhard. A 1931 history counted him “among the younger bankers of the city of Buffalo, who are making rapid strides in the field of finance,” then assistant vice president of the Marine Trust Company. He married Helene Chabot in Buffalo on 28 September 1929, and they lived at 238 Summit Street. He was a Republican. Helene died in 1936, and about 1948 he married Mary Frances Heffernan in Tonawanda. He died on 17 October 1964 at his home on Summit Avenue, survived by his wife and their son, Oliver Joseph. His obituary in the Buffalo Courier-Express names his surviving sisters and brother as Sister M. Theodore, G.N.S.H., Mrs. Albert Salter and Theodore J. of Bronxville, New York. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, his funeral was held at St. Mark's Church, and memorial gifts went to the Roswell Park leukemia fund.

Some family trees list him as a son of Charles A. Weppner instead.

Their lifetime

  1. 1894Oliver Augustus Weppner is born in Buffalo, New York.
  2. 1896The Ellicott Square Building opens, the largest office building in the world at the time. Buffalo
  3. 1901The Pan-American Exposition; President McKinley is shot at the Temple of Music. Buffalo
  4. 1904The German Bank, controlled by the same Boston promoter, fails in December. Buffalo
  5. 1918The German-American Bank renames itself Liberty Bank. Buffalo
  6. 1950Buffalo's population peaks at 580,132. Buffalo
  7. 1959The St. Lawrence Seaway opens and shipping begins to bypass Buffalo. Buffalo
  8. 1964Oliver Augustus Weppner dies in Buffalo, New York.