DAILY ILLINOIS STATE JOURNAL,Wednesday,January 18,1882/Springfield, Illinois
The Turkey Creek Gold and Silver Mining Company, of Chicago:capital $1,000,000;incorporators,F.August Oswald,William Wehner, Herman Rendtorff and Henry F. Nuelsen.//Wehner,Rendtorff and Nuelsen were brothers-in-law (nee STUETZE); Oswald and Rendtorff were brothers-in-law. Not mentioned is Thomas Trainor of Turkey Creek, brother-in-law to Wehner//I am writing the first book from the American point of view about 19th century rotunda panoramas. These were the biggest paintings in the world, 50 x 400=20,000 square feet, housed in their own rotundas which were 16-sided polygons. Chicago in 1893 had 6 panorama companies and 6 panorama rotundas. Wehner's panorama rotunda located in downtown Milwaukee.Between 1885-88 he produced 2 units of BATTLE OF ATLANTA, 2 units of BATTLE OF MISSIONARY RIDGE & LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, and 3 units of JERUSALEM ON THE DAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION. My great aunt, Mathilde Georgine Schley(1864-1941) was an artist-model in the Wehner studio. In autumn 1888 Wehner (1847-1928)removed to San Jose, California, and helped start the white wine industry .INFO TO SHARE