Ernest Heinrich Wemme (1861–1914[2]) was a German businessman and philanthropist who came to prominence in Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon.
A farmer's son born in the village of Crostau, Kingdom of Saxony, as Ernest Heinrich Wemme, he had only a grade-school education.
Facing enrollment in the German army, he immigrated to the United States[3] at 18 years of age, not intending to stay.
[6] Wemme purchased canvas and cotton, having more material "than all the rest of the dealers on the coast put together", just as the boom to Alaska came to an end.
[2] Wemme owned the first automobile in Oregon, a Stanley Steamer bought in 1899[2][7] from what became the Locomobile Company of America.
One of his automobile salesmen, Eugene Ely volunteered to fly Wemme's first Curtiss biplane to Oregon.
Wemme died December 17, 1914, in Short Hills, a suburb of Los Angeles; he is buried in Riverview Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.
[2][18] It serves pregnant teens and young mothers who are in the foster system, typically due to being from a violent or abusive family.