John Frederick Weishampel

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Bio of Rev John Fredrick Weishampel http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=c14c9ba3-25a9-4f68-ac5...

John Frederick Weishampel, son of Christian Weishampel, was born in Baltimore, April 4, 1808. He learned the printing business with John T. Hansche; published several newspapers, among which were the Workingmen's Advocate, in support of the ten-hour system and.other reforms, and The Experiment, the first daily penny paper issued in Baltimore (1834) ; removed to Shippensburg, Pa., in 1836, to publish a paper there; removed to Circleville, Ohio, in 1838, to print the "Religious Telescope" for the United Brethren Church; removed to Harrisburg in 1840, and to Shiremanstown, Pa., 1841, to conduct the "Gospel Publisher," organ of the Church of God, by which denomination he was licensed as a minister of the gospel, and preached frequently on circuits and as a missionary in both the English and German languages during his life. lie removed in 1843 to Marietta, thence in 1844 to Lancaster, in 1845 to Philadelphia, and thence in 1846 to Baltimore. On July 3, 1831, he married Gertrude Dorothea Koehler, who was born March 20, 1807, in Germany, and came to America when eleven years old. She died Feb. 14, 1871, and is buried in Green Mount cemetery, Baltimore. They had six children who reached maturity, viz.: (1) John Frederick, who married Mary E. Addison; (2) Dorothy, who died in infancy; (3) Gertrude Dorothy, who married Robert Westley; (4) Benjamin Franklin, who married Cora I. Richards; (5) Mathilde Otillia, who married Lieut. Edward Francis Foster, First Lieutenant Quartermaster, Maryland Volunteers, Purnell Legion, on Deo. 13, 1864, at Baltimore, Md. (Lieutenant Foster died Sept. 5, 1880, and was interred in the National cemetery at Loudon Park, Baltimore, Md.; Mathilde O. Foster died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 14, 1910; buried in Robertson family lot, "Rose Plill," Loudon Park, Baltimore) ; (6) Emma Catherine, who married Dr. Charles E. Quail; (7) Ploward Washington, who died young; and (8) Ploward Burritt, who married Alice M. Uppercue and (second) Lelia Kratts, of Baltimore.

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@R1553312464@ 1880 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited _CRE: Year: 1880; Census Place: Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1142; Family History Film: 1255142; Page: 135D; Enumeration District: 155; Image: 0438.

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@R1553312464@ Baltimore, Maryland Directories, 1890 Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.Original data - Baltimore City Directory, 1890. Baltimore, MD, USA: R. L. Polk and Co., 1890.Original data: Baltimore City Directory, 1890. Baltimore, MD, USA: R. L. Polk and Co., 189 _CRE:

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@R1553319914@ Ancestry Family Trees Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=155805235&pi...