Louis Weichmann

[Pamela]

(09-10-2015 05:38 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  Is there documentation (aside from a relative's recollection) supporting the claim that a lawyer swindled Annie Weichmann's father?

I looked for the lawyer but had no luck. There were a lot of Broadbents in Philadelphia. Maybe another researcher can find something, in the newspapers or court records. My research skills are limited to Google and ancestry. Annie had a sister who never married, she was the one who brought the shyster into the family circle. I believe she taught school, also, and lived with them.

I wondered what was behind her zealotry, and just guessing, but perhaps there was alcoholism in her family; maybe her dad. It's hard to imagine that kind of passion for temperance without a negative life experience to drive her.

Maybe after she and Louis separated she felt that her time would be freer if they took in boarders, as opposed to her resuming teaching. Maybe boarders would give her father a challenge, since he never worked other than managing his properties. His occupation was listed as ice dealer, flour dealer, but maybe he only dabbled in those things through the properties he owned. On his death certificate his occupation was listed as "gentleman". I think Annie's brother was successful somewhere out west in distribution related to agriculture.