Miller.
Born at Huxfeldt, Germany on 21 May 1865, he immigrated to the United States in 1880, following his older brother who was operating a flour mill at Halstead, Kansas. He learned the milling trade then worked at mills at Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Thief River Falls (Minnesota), and Minneapolis (Minnesota) before coming to Winnipeg in 1891, where he became employed by Ogilvie Milling.
On 31 December 1896, he married Flora Ann McIver (1867-1954) at Hoople, North Dakota and they lived at 99 MacDonald Avenue in the Point Douglas area of Winnipeg, near the Ogilvie Flour Mill. They had six children: Annie Annetta Wiechman, John George Wiechman (1899-1974), Helen Flora Wiechman (1901-1988), Otto Fredrick “Bus” Wiechman (1902-1971), Mary Ruth “Mamie” Wiechman (1904-1991), and Jessie Eveline Wiechman (1907-1993).
In September 1898, he purchased a flour mill at Treherne that had been established around 1888 by the Grey brothers of Toronto, Ontario. He and his family moved to Treherne and operated the mill until it was destroyed by fre in January 1905. Undeterred, he rebuilt the mill using fireproof concrete blocks that he made on site following the pattern of a mill that he had worked at in Minneapolis. The new mill was powered by steam and later by electricity until it too was destroyed by fire, in April 1942.
He and his wife moved to Winnipeg in 1947 and he died in his home, 516 Clifton Street, on 17 December 1955. He was buried in the Woodlands Cemetery at Treherne.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Wiechman Flour Mill (183 Vanzile Street, Treherne, Municipality of Norfolk Treherne)
Tiger Hills to the Assiniboine: A History of Treherne and Surrounding District by Treherne Area History Committee, 1976, pages 329-332.
Obituary [Christian Wiechman], Winnipeg Tribune, 19 December 1955, page 24.
Obituary [Jessie Evelyn Wiechman], Winnipeg Free Press, 21 November 1993, page 31.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 May 2025
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