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ALBERT C. WIDMAN, one of the successful and enterprising young business men of this city, was born in Dunkirk, Chautauqua county, N. Y., September 15, 1860, and is a son of Charles and Sabina (Hiller) Widman. His father was a native of Heiningen, Germany, and was born in 1827. He was brought up in his native country, receiving his education in the schools there, after which he taught school. He then learned the trade of a pattern-maker, and in 1853 emigrated to Canada, where he resided in Quebec for one year. He came to the United States in 1854 and located at Dunkirk, where he spent the remainder of his life. As a pattern-maker he worked in the Brooks locomotive works for twenty years, at the expiration of which time he engaged in the grocery business with William Wyman, the firm-name being Widman & Wyman. At the end of two years he withdrew from the firm and went into the same business alone, in which he remained during the rest of his life. He was a very successful business man, and built a handsome two-story brick block, using the ground floors for his business and the second story as his private residence. The block was erected in 1874 at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Courtney Street. Politically he was a democrat, and died July 25, 1889. In 1847 he married Sabina Hiller, a native of Ulm, Germany, who was born July 21, 1822, and now resides in Dunkirk with Albert C. They were the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters.

Albert C. Widman was reared in Dunkirk, received his education in the public schools, and in 1889 bought his father’s saloon and grocery business and still continues at the old stand. He not only has a most excellent trade, but adds materially to his revenue by handling flour and feed. In politics he is a democrat, has served as inspector of election boards, and is a promising and popular young man.

Albert C. Widman was married, May 28, 1889, to Nellie Westerberg, daughter of S. J. Westerberg, of Hartfield, this county. This union has been blest with one child, Barbara L., who was born September 16, 1890.