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The story

Generation by generation

Six chapters, one for each generation, with what Buffalo looked like at the time. Names link to each person's page.

  1. Generation I1783From the Rhineland to BuffaloAugustus and Barbara sell their farm near Worms, sail from Le Havre and reach Buffalo on 18 September 1834.
  2. Generation II1818Butchers, a brewer and the first Buffalo-born WeppnerJacob turns brewer, Arnold and Francis stay butchers, and Francis becomes the first Weppner born in Buffalo.
  3. Generation III1852The oldest meat market in BuffaloAugust runs “the oldest and leading meat market in Buffalo,” and his brother Edward, a banker, faces down a Boston promoter in the run of 1904.
  4. Generation IV1893Elmer and Mary LouiseElmer Kraus Weppner and Mary Louise Herger raise five children in Buffalo.
  5. Generation V1923The doctors' generationA Navy veteran, two doctors and the move to the suburbs.
  6. Generations VI–VIITodayStill in BuffaloDennis follows his father into medicine, and the seventh generation arrives.