"Oscar C. Wehle"
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Oscar Charles Wehle (1859–1921), also known as O. C. Wehle, was a Kentucky born architect who practiced primarily in north central Kentucky and in Chicago Illinois. He had two notable, short partnerships in Kentucky, first with C.S. Mergell and later with William J. Dodd. He was active as an architect or an engineer for at most only twenty two years (1883-1905) but it is not clear if he maintained work or licensing as an architect after 1895 upon his resignation from the A.I.A.
Overview[edit]
1859; birth in Louisville, Kentucky; eldest child of Wilhelm Wehle & Rosa Tachau (parents & siblings buried in Adath Israel Jewish cemetery[2]), grandson of Aaron Beer Wehle and nephew of Gottlieb Wehle, leaders of Prague’s Sabbataean Jews[3]
1877-78; apprenticeship: listed in Louisville directories as draughtsman for architect C.S. Mergell
1878; military: listed as a private in "Muster Roll of the Louisville Legion" (State Guard, Co. A)
1879; apprenticeship: listed in Louisville directories as salesman for C.G. Tachau (tobacco sales)
1880-81; military: listed as a private in “History of the Ohio Falls Counties: Militia of 1880” (Co. A)[4]
1881; apprenticeship: listed in Louisville directories as draughtsman for C.A. Curtin; Wilhelm Wehle dies.
1882; apprenticeship: listed in Louisville directories as draughtsman for L.N. Railroad
1883-4; profession: listed in Louisville directories as architect for L.N. Railroad; Rosa Tachau Wehle dies.
1885; profession: listed in Louisville directories in partnership of Mergell & Wehle, architects
1885; profession: Wehle attends Western Association of Architects 2nd annual meeting in StLouis
1886-87; profession: Wehle partners with the newly arrived in Louisville from Hyde Park[5], W.J. Dodd, the latter a member of Western Assoc. of Architects; Wehle is secretary for Kentucky Association of Architects.[6]
1886-87; profession: Wehle & Dodd design residence for Max Selliger[7] and clubhouse for the Louisville Standard Club
1888; profession: Louisville city directory & Red book list Wehle as partner with Dodd and member of Standard Club
1888; profession: Wehle & Dodd design downtown residence for Louis Seelbach on 6th Street.
1889; profession: partnership ends with Dodd; Dodd goes free-lance, marries Ione Estes, joins Pendennis Club, but doesn’t join A.I.A. when W.A.A. merges with A.I.A.
1890; personal: Wehle attends "Brotherhood of Commercial Travelers"[8] at Hotel Marlborough, N.Y., a booksellers fraternal organization.
1890; profession: Wehle joins A.I.A; AIA yearbook lists Wehle O.C. at 142 N. Main St. Salt Lake City, Utah
1891; profession: A.I.A. directory lists O.C. Wehle as identified with Syracuse New York
1894; profession: Wehle listed among attending guests of Sept. 8 gathering of The Society of Engineers of Chicago[9]
1895-96; personal: lives with Laurens Maynard in Chicago for unknown period. Maynard was a Boston lawyer (1887-90), then businessman (1890-7), then owner/editor for publishers Small, Maynard & Co. (1897-1906) then a general editor and travel writer until his death in 1917[10].
1895; profession: Wehle resigns from A.I.A., does not maintain membership after 1895.[11]
1896-97; tangent: Laurens Maynard publishes the notorious, homoerotic text "Calamus: Letters to Peter Doyle" by Walt Whitman[12]. Maynard had been drawn to Whitmanism as early as 1894, a disciple after 1896.
1898; military: Wehle enlists as infantry man, at age 39, in War with Spain; sickness ends his duty.[13]
1900; personal: US Census has Oscar, age 41, unmarried, lodging at 5401 Jefferson Av Chicago
1900; professional: Chicago directory lists Wehle “mngr” at “220, 97 Clark” (Shields & Bro Real Est Brokers?)
1905; professional: construction superintendent Hepburn & Brice Halls, Miami University.[14]
1910; personal: US Census has Oscar, age 51, unmarried, lodging at 5471 Kimbark Ave, Hyde Park, Chicago
1912-19; personal: still living at 5471 Kimbark Ave (from members list of "American Fisheries Society")
1920; personal: US Census has Oscar, 61, unmarried, lodging at 4914 Forrestville Ave, Hyde Park, Chicago
1921; Death Oct. 27: Chicago. Burial: Oak Woods Cemetery; not returned for burial in Louisville Jewish cemeteries.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ Inland Architect, March 1886
- ↑ Herman Meyer & Sons records. http://www.meyerfuneral.com/The%20Temple%20burials%20pg7.htm. Visited 5/2013
- ↑ Gershom Scholem. The Messianic Idea in Judaism: and other essays on Jewish Spirituality. Random House. pp. 167-175
- ↑ History of the Ohio Falls Counties: Militia of 1880; also, 1881 Kentucky Legislative Document No. 11, Report of Adjutant General, p.26
- ↑ Inland Architect & Builder. Vol 7, No. 1, p. 8: February 1886
- ↑ Inland Architect, Vol. 10, December 1887. p. 83 “The Kentucky State Association of Architects sends the following...”
- ↑ Sanitary News: Weekly Journal of Sanitary Science, Vol. 8, May 1-October 31 1886. Chicago. p. 270
- ↑ The American Stationer, Vol. 27, 1890. p. 8. Pub. Howard Lockwood, The BCT is a literary & publishers trade association.
- ↑ he Daily Inter Ocean (Newspaper). Chicago. Sept. 9, 1894. p. 9
- ↑ Publishers’ Weekly, Vol. 79, Issues 1-12, p. 1016. 1911. New York
- ↑ Proceedings of the 36th Annual Convention of the American Institute of Architects, Volume 36, Gibson Bros. pub. 1903. p. 175
- ↑ Ralph Adams Cram : Life and Architecture: Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900, Volume 2 By Douglass Shand-Tucci. 1996
- ↑ The Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain 1898-1899. Pub. Edward T. Miller Co. Columbus OH. 1916, p. 387
- ↑ Miami Student, Vol. 24, 1905, pp. 82, 85. Miami University of Ohio
- ↑ Chicago Daily Tribune. October 29, 1921. Death Notices. Also, Illinois Statewide Death Index. Also, Herman Meyer & Sons records.
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