Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Weigand, A. E. April 6, 1853 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Weigand, A.E., German Flats, was born in Berlin, Prussia, April 6, 1853, and 
there learned the trade of designer and woodcarver.  He came to Ilion in 1878, 
and has since been a contractor in the armory, doing all the ornamenting and 
checquering on the gun stocks.  He was the first to educated women in this art 
and employ them in America.  In 1878 he married Sarah Miller, daughter of 
Adolphus Miller, a clergyman of Cleveland, O.

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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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