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Generation II · Married Anna Maria Weppner Born

Philip Born

7 May 1799 – 26 Jan 1849

Facts

Born
7 May 1799, Westhofen, near Worms
Died
26 Jan 1849, Buffalo, New York
Also known as
Philipp Born; Phillip Born
Work
Brewer; the Born brewery, 581 Genesee Street

Their story

The son of Augustus's sister Eva Magdalena and Johann Philipp Born of Westhofen, and so Augustus's nephew. He came to Buffalo and ran a brewery on Genesee Street, and on 3 March 1840 he married his first cousin Anna Maria Weppner at St. Louis Church. Their son, Augustin, was born that December, and three daughters followed: Barbara, Anna Mary and Emma. Philip died suddenly on 26 January 1849, leaving Anna Maria a widow at thirty with three young daughters. Her brother Jacob took over the brewery and ran it until 1865, when it passed to Gerhard Lang, who married Philip's daughter Barbara; it grew into the Gerhard Lang Brewery. Philip and Anna Maria share a headstone at Mount Calvary Cemetery.

Family trees give his birth as 7 May 1799. His headstone says he died aged 44, which points to about 1804.

Their lifetime

  1. 1799Philip Born is born in Westhofen, near Worms.
  2. 1818Anna Maria, Augustus and Barbara's first child, is born at Zell on 10 July.
  3. 1825The Erie Canal opens, with Buffalo as its western terminus. Buffalo
  4. 1829St. Louis Church is founded for the city's French, German and Irish Catholics. Buffalo
  5. 1832Buffalo is chartered as a city; cholera kills more than 120 people by July. Buffalo
  6. 1834The Weppners sail from Le Havre on the François I, land at New York on 23 August and reach Buffalo on 18 September.
  7. 1834Cholera returns to a city of nearly 15,000, and people who can afford to leave do. Buffalo
  8. 1837Der Weltbürger, Buffalo's first German-language newspaper, begins publishing. Buffalo
  9. 1840Anna Maria Weppner marries her cousin Philip Born at St. Louis Church on 3 March.
  10. 1842A treaty gives up the Seneca's Buffalo Creek Reservation, which bordered the city. Buffalo
  11. 1845The Elk Street Market opens; butchers come to fill most of its stalls. Buffalo
  12. 1849Philip Born dies on 26 January, and Jacob leaves his father's meat business to run Born's brewery for his widowed sister.