Johan Francis Wielandy

1830 - 1906  (76 years)

• Name	Johan Francis Wielandy
  Born	4 Apr 1830	Geneva, Genève, Switzerland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	9 Dec 1906	Saint James, Phelps, Missouri, United States
  Person ID	I174	Wagner-Thomas
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2013

  
  

  Family	Cunigunda Wagner,   b. 6 Feb 1833, Schwarzach, Bavaria, Germany ,   d. Bef 1900, Missouri, United States  (Age < 66 years)
  Married	13 Aug 1863	Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Joseph Paul Wielandy,   b. 5 Jun 1864, Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States ,   d. 4 Mar 1953, Bellevive Acres, St Louis, Missouri, USA  (Age 88 years)   2. Wielandy,   b. Abt 1865, Cole, Missouri, United States ,   d. Abt 1866, Cole, Missouri, United States  (Age ~ 1 years) + 3. Frank Hecktor Wielandy,   b. 4 Apr 1868, Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States ,   d. 25 Jun 1946, Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States  (Age 78 years)   4. Ella Wielandy,   b. Mar 1870, Cole, Missouri, United States ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2014
  Family ID	F77	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 4 Apr 1830 - Geneva, Genève, Switzerland Married - 13 Aug 1863 - Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States Died - 9 Dec 1906 - Saint James, Phelps, Missouri, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  1830 BIRTH;SWITZ-Geneva: Johan Francis Wielandy was born 4 April 1830. BIRTH: Story of John F. Wielandy "Missouri and Missourians" Vol V, The Lewis Publishing Co 1943 [hereafter shown as M&M]. Story says that he was born on April 4, 1830 at Geneva Switzerland of French, Swiss and Alsatian parentage. c1849 IMMIGRATION: M&M: "Before he came to America at the age of 19, he had achieved a liberal education, including post-graduate work in horticulture and agriculture. He eventually achieved fluency in six different languges..." 1849-1862 HISTORY: M&M: "On July 4, 1849, he arrived at Highland in southern Illinois, a community made up almost entirely of emigrants from Switzerland. His parents and their other child, a daughter, joined him in Highland in 1853. For some years following John F Wielandy was in New York perfecting his law studies, returned to Illinois in 1859 and in 1860 was appointed probate judge of St Clair County. In 1861, the year the Civil War broke out, he moved to St Louis to prace law and soon afterward volunteered for service in the Union forces and was appointed an adjutant. In 1862 he located at the capital city of Jefferson City, where soon afterward he was appointed Government Land Commissioner, with headquarters at Boonville. After returning to Jefferson City he was for a time editor of a newspaper and was also engaged in farming..." 1861 MILITARY: Civil War Soldiers: John F Wielandy, Union Regiment-MO, 2 months Infantry (3 months 1861) Co C, 2nd Lieutenant Rank in and out. Alternate name: John Frederick Wielandy, film #1 M390 roll 52 1863 MARRIAGE: MO,Cole Co-Jefferson City: M & M "Johan Francis Wielandy married Kunigunda Wagner, a widow with four children. Missouri and Missourians: To their marriage were born four children, the second, a son, dying in infancy in 1866. The oldest was Paul J Wielandy, the third child was Frank H. and the youndest was Ella, born in 1870..." Evangelical Church records show Johan Francis and Kunigunda nee Wagner Wielandy as parents of two children. Jefferson City People's Tribune, 28 June 1871, pg 3 1871 POLITICS: Obituary of father-in-law, Paulus Wagner - "he (Paulus) is the father-in-law of Hon J F Wielandy, the present Representative of Cole Co." 1873 CENSUS-STATE: MO,Cole Co-Jefferson City: WIELANDY, Jno F Males: 2, 5-21; 1, 22-85; Females: 1, 0-5; 3, 10-21; 1, 22-85 Sec'y of Branch S Agents, Switzerland-nativity. 1876 HISTORY: M&M: "In the fall of 1876 the family moved to St Louis where John F Wielandy in the following year entered the law firm of Bentley and Wielandy..." 1880 CENSUS:MO,St Louis Co-St Louis: Film #287763,Anc.com Img 24,pg 24,11 Jun,Dw184/225,923 Salisbury St: WIELANDY, JF [John] 49/Sw (Sw,Sw) Atty at law; Kunigunde [Katy]-wife 47/Bav (Bav,Bav); Julius WUGER-stpson 29/MO (Sw,Bav) grocery; Clara Wuger-stpdau 24/MO-helps mother; Sophia Wuger 20/MO-at home; Sabrina-stpdau 20/MO-at home; PJ Wielandy-son 16/MO-clerk in store; Frank Wielandy son 12/MO-at school; Ella Wielandy-dau 10/MO. 1891 HISTORY: NM,Santa Fe Co-Santa Fe: M&M: "His early professional training and his strong inclination for agriculture and horticulture took him to the Southwest in 1891, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where subsequently he was made supervisor of the agricultural department for the Santa Fe Railway. In this capacity he did a great deal of valuable land colonizing work for the railroad, meeting groups of immigrants at New York and bringing them to suitable locations on the railroad lands in the far Southwest. He was particularly well qualified to counsel the settlers in all matters pertaining to horticulture and agriculture. He is credited with having suggested and started the general planting and development of the interesting locality of Tempe, Arizona about 10 miles below Phoenix, in such tropicl fruits as oranges, lemons, figs, dates, etc..." 1900 CENSUS: NM,Santa Fe Co-Santa Fe: Film #1246244, living alone on College St: Wielandy, John F. 4-1830 (70)/Switzerland. 1905 HISTORY: MO,St Louis Co-St Louis: M&M: "In 1905 John F Wielandy returned to his old home at St Louis and took over the supervision of an extensive fruit orchard near St James owned by FW Kroner. He was living at the Kroner home when he died of pneumonia December 9, 1906..." 1906 DEATH: MO-St James: John Francis Wielandy died of pneumonia 9 December 1906. Funeral notice of Paul J Wieland says John studied law and applied for permit to practice and Abe Lincoln examined him at Edwardsville and he received diploma. Great grandfather, Wieland, officer of Austrian army, serving under Napolean Bonaparte and was appointed Gov of a Swiss conton. Order by Swiss court for all men not native-born Swiss to change name, so added "y" to name.

  
  

• Sources

  [S75] Missouri and Missourians, Vol V, pg abt 89. John F Wielandy, whose sons, Paul and Frank Wielandy, were among the founders and are respectively president and vice-president of the Blackwell-Wielandy Co. at St Louis, settle at St Louis and in Missouri about the time of the Civil War. He was born April 4, 1830 at Geneva, Switzerland, of French, Swiss and Alsatian parentage... [S80] Internet: Ancestry.com, Anc.com Img 15, pg 208. Wielandy - St Louis, Missouri, County of St Louis: I certify that I have this 13th day of August 1863 joined in the Holy bonds of matrimony Mr John F Wielandy of St Louis and Mrs Kunigunda Wuger of the same place. Signed, Julius F Schnester, Justice of the Peace. Filed Nov 10, 1863 by P C Kennedy, Recorder Missouri Marriage Records 1805-2002