Age 83
Agustus Gottlieb Weidekind was born in Germany in January 1832. He immigrated to the United States in 1845 when he was 13 years old. By December 1850, he was a miner living in Placerville.
In 1865, he and a partner by the last name of Smith ran a butchering business in Jeffersonville, which was a town between Tuttletown and Jamestown.
By 1870, he was a gold miner living in Columbia.
Aug 9, 1873
Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 2
A. Wiedekind will be an Independent candidate for Member of Assembly in the District composed of Tuolumne, Mono and Inyo counties.
To the Voters. The undersigned Independent candidate for member of Assembly will visit Big Oak Flat, Garrote, Chinese Camp and the lower portion of the county, for the purpose of meeting the electors during the coming week, when he will define his position on the questions now before the voters of this county.
A. Wiedekind
August 9th, 1873.
August 16, 1873
Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 2
Independent Candidates. -- The last issue of the Inyo Independent contains the announcement of Thomas J. Goodale, as an independent candidate for the Assembly, to represent this district. Now there is a self-nominated, independent candidate in each of the counties; Weidekind, in Tuolumne; Hays, in Mono, and Goodale, in Inyo. They have no strength here, and beyond a few scattering votes will not be heard of. How it may be in Inyo and Mono, we are unable to say, but in Tuolumne, there certainly is little for independent candidates to expect. Between the tickets nominated by both political parties they have a splendid prospect of being ground entirely out of sight on election day.
August 23, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 1
Public Speaking. -- A. Wiedekind, Independent candidate for the Legislature, will address the people of Columbia this evening and in Sonora on Monday evening next. As this is the first and only speech made during the campaign, it is likely a good number will come out to hear the gentleman. He will visit the mountain precincts next week.
The local media urged voters to not vote for Independent candidates because it would be the same as throwing away a vote. Mr. Wiedekind got only 140 votes from voters in Tuolumne County. Eighty-one of those votes came from the Columbia Pricinct.
Oct 4, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 4, Column 5
Empire Market. Washington Street, Sonora.
The subscriber having taking taken the above named market proposes to conduct it on the principal of live and let live, and hopes by industry and correct dealing to merit a share of the public patronage, and will keep the best beef, mutton, pork, ham, lard, bacon, & pickled meat, of all kinds constantly on hand; also, head-cheese and sausage. A. Wiederkind. Sonora, Oct. 4, 1873 – tf.
Oct. 11, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 1
Our friend Gus Wiedekind, of the Empire Market paid us a visit this week and brought us a sample of his splendid head-cheese, together with some refreshing and invigorating beverages. The boys "went" for the head-cheese like hungry wolves for a young bullock. They have been smacking their lips ever since. They could bear such interruptions every hour in the day. We long to try them again.
In about 1901, August married a Native American lady named Johanna We-nah-yah. It was his first marriage and her third marriage. She had given birth to two children, but neither were living at the time of the 1910 census. One of those children, Lucillia Reed Day, passed away in 1902. Johanna was born in Murphys, California about 1842. Her father was born in Knights Ferry, and her mother was born in Springfield. All three towns were California mining settlements. August and Johanna spoke English. He could read and write English, but she could not. They owned their home free and clear in 1910.
From the Union Democrat (Sonora newspaper), August 29, 1914, under the heading, Some Newsy Notes from Columbia:
A. G. Weidekind, one of the few remaining pioneers of this vicinity, died at the county hospital Thursday at an advanced age. He came to this state at a very early date. He was a progressive, enterprising man. He was first engaged in the cattle business on the San Joaquin plains, then went to Pine Log which then had a population of 400 husky miners. He engaged in business there and prospered for some years and later, for many years, was engaged in placer and river mining with varying success. He was a man of strong character, sincere in his convictions, positive in his likes and dislikes and was a very worthy man, liked and respected by all who knew him. He will be buried Friday in Columbia at the City cemetery, it being is oft expressed wish to be buried here.
Agustus Gottlieb Weidekind was born in Germany in January 1832. He immigrated to the United States in 1845 when he was 13 years old. By December 1850, he was a miner living in Placerville.
In 1865, he and a partner by the last name of Smith ran a butchering business in Jeffersonville, which was a town between Tuttletown and Jamestown.
By 1870, he was a gold miner living in Columbia.
Aug 9, 1873
Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 2
A. Wiedekind will be an Independent candidate for Member of Assembly in the District composed of Tuolumne, Mono and Inyo counties.
To the Voters. The undersigned Independent candidate for member of Assembly will visit Big Oak Flat, Garrote, Chinese Camp and the lower portion of the county, for the purpose of meeting the electors during the coming week, when he will define his position on the questions now before the voters of this county.
A. Wiedekind
August 9th, 1873.
August 16, 1873
Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 2
Independent Candidates. -- The last issue of the Inyo Independent contains the announcement of Thomas J. Goodale, as an independent candidate for the Assembly, to represent this district. Now there is a self-nominated, independent candidate in each of the counties; Weidekind, in Tuolumne; Hays, in Mono, and Goodale, in Inyo. They have no strength here, and beyond a few scattering votes will not be heard of. How it may be in Inyo and Mono, we are unable to say, but in Tuolumne, there certainly is little for independent candidates to expect. Between the tickets nominated by both political parties they have a splendid prospect of being ground entirely out of sight on election day.
August 23, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 1
Public Speaking. -- A. Wiedekind, Independent candidate for the Legislature, will address the people of Columbia this evening and in Sonora on Monday evening next. As this is the first and only speech made during the campaign, it is likely a good number will come out to hear the gentleman. He will visit the mountain precincts next week.
The local media urged voters to not vote for Independent candidates because it would be the same as throwing away a vote. Mr. Wiedekind got only 140 votes from voters in Tuolumne County. Eighty-one of those votes came from the Columbia Pricinct.
Oct 4, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 4, Column 5
Empire Market. Washington Street, Sonora.
The subscriber having taking taken the above named market proposes to conduct it on the principal of live and let live, and hopes by industry and correct dealing to merit a share of the public patronage, and will keep the best beef, mutton, pork, ham, lard, bacon, & pickled meat, of all kinds constantly on hand; also, head-cheese and sausage. A. Wiederkind. Sonora, Oct. 4, 1873 – tf.
Oct. 11, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 1
Our friend Gus Wiedekind, of the Empire Market paid us a visit this week and brought us a sample of his splendid head-cheese, together with some refreshing and invigorating beverages. The boys "went" for the head-cheese like hungry wolves for a young bullock. They have been smacking their lips ever since. They could bear such interruptions every hour in the day. We long to try them again.
In about 1901, August married a Native American lady named Johanna We-nah-yah. It was his first marriage and her third marriage. She had given birth to two children, but neither were living at the time of the 1910 census. One of those children, Lucillia Reed Day, passed away in 1902. Johanna was born in Murphys, California about 1842. Her father was born in Knights Ferry, and her mother was born in Springfield. All three towns were California mining settlements. August and Johanna spoke English. He could read and write English, but she could not. They owned their home free and clear in 1910.
From the Union Democrat (Sonora newspaper), August 29, 1914, under the heading, Some Newsy Notes from Columbia:
A. G. Weidekind, one of the few remaining pioneers of this vicinity, died at the county hospital Thursday at an advanced age. He came to this state at a very early date. He was a progressive, enterprising man. He was first engaged in the cattle business on the San Joaquin plains, then went to Pine Log which then had a population of 400 husky miners. He engaged in business there and prospered for some years and later, for many years, was engaged in placer and river mining with varying success. He was a man of strong character, sincere in his convictions, positive in his likes and dislikes and was a very worthy man, liked and respected by all who knew him. He will be buried Friday in Columbia at the City cemetery, it being is oft expressed wish to be buried here.
Age 83
Agustus Gottlieb Weidekind was born in Germany in January 1832. He immigrated to the United States in 1845 when he was 13 years old. By December 1850, he was a miner living in Placerville.
In 1865, he and a partner by the last name of Smith ran a butchering business in Jeffersonville, which was a town between Tuttletown and Jamestown.
By 1870, he was a gold miner living in Columbia.
Aug 9, 1873
Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 2
A. Wiedekind will be an Independent candidate for Member of Assembly in the District composed of Tuolumne, Mono and Inyo counties.
To the Voters. The undersigned Independent candidate for member of Assembly will visit Big Oak Flat, Garrote, Chinese Camp and the lower portion of the county, for the purpose of meeting the electors during the coming week, when he will define his position on the questions now before the voters of this county.
A. Wiedekind
August 9th, 1873.
August 16, 1873
Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 2
Independent Candidates. -- The last issue of the Inyo Independent contains the announcement of Thomas J. Goodale, as an independent candidate for the Assembly, to represent this district. Now there is a self-nominated, independent candidate in each of the counties; Weidekind, in Tuolumne; Hays, in Mono, and Goodale, in Inyo. They have no strength here, and beyond a few scattering votes will not be heard of. How it may be in Inyo and Mono, we are unable to say, but in Tuolumne, there certainly is little for independent candidates to expect. Between the tickets nominated by both political parties they have a splendid prospect of being ground entirely out of sight on election day.
August 23, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 1
Public Speaking. -- A. Wiedekind, Independent candidate for the Legislature, will address the people of Columbia this evening and in Sonora on Monday evening next. As this is the first and only speech made during the campaign, it is likely a good number will come out to hear the gentleman. He will visit the mountain precincts next week.
The local media urged voters to not vote for Independent candidates because it would be the same as throwing away a vote. Mr. Wiedekind got only 140 votes from voters in Tuolumne County. Eighty-one of those votes came from the Columbia Pricinct.
Oct 4, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 4, Column 5
Empire Market. Washington Street, Sonora.
The subscriber having taking taken the above named market proposes to conduct it on the principal of live and let live, and hopes by industry and correct dealing to merit a share of the public patronage, and will keep the best beef, mutton, pork, ham, lard, bacon, & pickled meat, of all kinds constantly on hand; also, head-cheese and sausage. A. Wiederkind. Sonora, Oct. 4, 1873 – tf.
Oct. 11, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 1
Our friend Gus Wiedekind, of the Empire Market paid us a visit this week and brought us a sample of his splendid head-cheese, together with some refreshing and invigorating beverages. The boys "went" for the head-cheese like hungry wolves for a young bullock. They have been smacking their lips ever since. They could bear such interruptions every hour in the day. We long to try them again.
In about 1901, August married a Native American lady named Johanna We-nah-yah. It was his first marriage and her third marriage. She had given birth to two children, but neither were living at the time of the 1910 census. One of those children, Lucillia Reed Day, passed away in 1902. Johanna was born in Murphys, California about 1842. Her father was born in Knights Ferry, and her mother was born in Springfield. All three towns were California mining settlements. August and Johanna spoke English. He could read and write English, but she could not. They owned their home free and clear in 1910.
From the Union Democrat (Sonora newspaper), August 29, 1914, under the heading, Some Newsy Notes from Columbia:
A. G. Weidekind, one of the few remaining pioneers of this vicinity, died at the county hospital Thursday at an advanced age. He came to this state at a very early date. He was a progressive, enterprising man. He was first engaged in the cattle business on the San Joaquin plains, then went to Pine Log which then had a population of 400 husky miners. He engaged in business there and prospered for some years and later, for many years, was engaged in placer and river mining with varying success. He was a man of strong character, sincere in his convictions, positive in his likes and dislikes and was a very worthy man, liked and respected by all who knew him. He will be buried Friday in Columbia at the City cemetery, it being is oft expressed wish to be buried here.
Agustus Gottlieb Weidekind was born in Germany in January 1832. He immigrated to the United States in 1845 when he was 13 years old. By December 1850, he was a miner living in Placerville.
In 1865, he and a partner by the last name of Smith ran a butchering business in Jeffersonville, which was a town between Tuttletown and Jamestown.
By 1870, he was a gold miner living in Columbia.
Aug 9, 1873
Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 2
A. Wiedekind will be an Independent candidate for Member of Assembly in the District composed of Tuolumne, Mono and Inyo counties.
To the Voters. The undersigned Independent candidate for member of Assembly will visit Big Oak Flat, Garrote, Chinese Camp and the lower portion of the county, for the purpose of meeting the electors during the coming week, when he will define his position on the questions now before the voters of this county.
A. Wiedekind
August 9th, 1873.
August 16, 1873
Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 2
Independent Candidates. -- The last issue of the Inyo Independent contains the announcement of Thomas J. Goodale, as an independent candidate for the Assembly, to represent this district. Now there is a self-nominated, independent candidate in each of the counties; Weidekind, in Tuolumne; Hays, in Mono, and Goodale, in Inyo. They have no strength here, and beyond a few scattering votes will not be heard of. How it may be in Inyo and Mono, we are unable to say, but in Tuolumne, there certainly is little for independent candidates to expect. Between the tickets nominated by both political parties they have a splendid prospect of being ground entirely out of sight on election day.
August 23, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 1
Public Speaking. -- A. Wiedekind, Independent candidate for the Legislature, will address the people of Columbia this evening and in Sonora on Monday evening next. As this is the first and only speech made during the campaign, it is likely a good number will come out to hear the gentleman. He will visit the mountain precincts next week.
The local media urged voters to not vote for Independent candidates because it would be the same as throwing away a vote. Mr. Wiedekind got only 140 votes from voters in Tuolumne County. Eighty-one of those votes came from the Columbia Pricinct.
Oct 4, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 4, Column 5
Empire Market. Washington Street, Sonora.
The subscriber having taking taken the above named market proposes to conduct it on the principal of live and let live, and hopes by industry and correct dealing to merit a share of the public patronage, and will keep the best beef, mutton, pork, ham, lard, bacon, & pickled meat, of all kinds constantly on hand; also, head-cheese and sausage. A. Wiederkind. Sonora, Oct. 4, 1873 – tf.
Oct. 11, 1873 - Union Democrat - Page 3, Column 1
Our friend Gus Wiedekind, of the Empire Market paid us a visit this week and brought us a sample of his splendid head-cheese, together with some refreshing and invigorating beverages. The boys "went" for the head-cheese like hungry wolves for a young bullock. They have been smacking their lips ever since. They could bear such interruptions every hour in the day. We long to try them again.
In about 1901, August married a Native American lady named Johanna We-nah-yah. It was his first marriage and her third marriage. She had given birth to two children, but neither were living at the time of the 1910 census. One of those children, Lucillia Reed Day, passed away in 1902. Johanna was born in Murphys, California about 1842. Her father was born in Knights Ferry, and her mother was born in Springfield. All three towns were California mining settlements. August and Johanna spoke English. He could read and write English, but she could not. They owned their home free and clear in 1910.
From the Union Democrat (Sonora newspaper), August 29, 1914, under the heading, Some Newsy Notes from Columbia:
A. G. Weidekind, one of the few remaining pioneers of this vicinity, died at the county hospital Thursday at an advanced age. He came to this state at a very early date. He was a progressive, enterprising man. He was first engaged in the cattle business on the San Joaquin plains, then went to Pine Log which then had a population of 400 husky miners. He engaged in business there and prospered for some years and later, for many years, was engaged in placer and river mining with varying success. He was a man of strong character, sincere in his convictions, positive in his likes and dislikes and was a very worthy man, liked and respected by all who knew him. He will be buried Friday in Columbia at the City cemetery, it being is oft expressed wish to be buried here.
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