| Name |
WEIDENHAMER, Walter Lyon |
| Gender |
Male |
| Biography |
- WALTER L. WEIDENHAMER, merchant of Watsontown, Northumberland county, belongs to a family which has been settled in Pennsylvania from about the middle of the eighteenth century. The progenitor in America, Johannes Weidenhamer was a native of Germany, born Nov. 14, 1126. ln1750 he married Margaret Magdalena Eblinger, and they were survived by five sons and four daughters, twenty-seven grandchildren and forty-eight great-grandchildren. Johannes Weidenhamer died Aug. 3. 1804, in his seventy-eighth year, his wife, who was born in 1729, dying in April, 1812, when eighty-three years old. The original Weidenhamer homestead was about three quarters of a mile north of Moselem Springs, in Berks county, Pa., on the Easton road.
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| Biography |
- Walter L. Weidenhamer was born Sept. 9, 1870, at Dewart, and there began his education in the public schools. He early began to assist his father as clerk in the store, and was thus engaged until 1893, when he opened his present business at Watsontown, carrying a line of stationery, jewelry, sporting goods, cigars and tobacco, as well as newspapers. He has a well appointed store on Main street, between First and Second, and by enterprising methods has built up a prosperous trade, which has increased steadily.
On April 24, 1895 Mr. Weidenhamer married Eva Rissel, daughter of Peter Rissel (formerly spelled Rishel), a railroader. and they have had two children, Harold R. and Alberta May. Mr. Weidenhamer and his family are members of the Lutheran Church. He is well known fraternally, holding membership in Watsontown Lodge. No. 619, I.O. O. F.; Council No. 514, Jr. O. U. A. M., at Watsontown; the A. O.M. P., No. 33; and Milton Lodge, No. 913, B. P. O. Elks, of Milton, this county. Politically he is a Democrat and he has held local offices at Watsontown.
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| _UID |
4DE7BF9779B4D640B7D26C0C3FF8F9CDCB57 |
| Died |
Yes, date unknown |
| Buried |
Watsontown, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States  |
Address:
Watsontown Cemetery |
| Person ID |
I6746 |
Ancestry |
| Last Modified |
25 Nov 2019 |
| Father |
WEIDENHAMER, John Adam, b. 5 Apr 1836, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States , d. Yes, date unknown |
| Mother |
DATESMAN, Sarah Anna, b. 26 Apr 1838, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 13 Aug 1926, District of Columbia, United States (Age 88 years) |
| Married |
1 Nov 1859 |
Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Family ID |
F2101 |
Group Sheet |
- Yes, date unknown
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