Name/Title
McCord, Tony McHugh, unknown, Pat Hamilton with dog, Bill Wegner.Entry/Object ID
2012.11.8Description
Bill Wegner worked as a bookkeeper up in for Anthony L. McHugh at the railroad camp building the line from Edmonton to Prince Rupert in British Columbia 1913-1914.
8. 4th from left is McCord, Tony McHugh, unknown, Pat Hamilton with dog, Bill Wegner.
Bill Wegner is the son of Ferdinand, who went to Pennsylvania where he again took up blacksmithing. Wanting to move on to the west he had heard so much about, he moved to Portland, Oregon. It was there he married Amy E. Johnson in 1867. She had been born in Nampa, California on March 20, 1855. Over the next few years they had four children: Ernestina L., William F., Herman C., and Edward.
Wegners moving to Spokane County, Washington Territory, where they settled on a farm of nearly 1,000 acres 12 miles southeast of Cheney.Acquisition
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2012.11Source or Donor
Babb, Helen ElizabethAcquisition Method
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Wegner, William F.