Gus G. Widmayer

Gus G. Widmayer, (1958- ), businessman and historian, was born August 24, 1958 at No. 142 George Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, fourth of the five children of Francis J. Widmayer, Jr. (1929- ) and his wife Gertrude Marie (Catanese) (1930–2008). The house was also his mother's birthplace and home to his maternal grandfather and namesake, Accursio Gustave "Gus" Catanese since 1906 when the grandfather was six months old. Widmayer's father was a businessman graduated by St. John's University who received his MBA from New York University and went on to found a manufacturing concern named Orion Industries in 1972. After moving with the father's career to homes in Denville, New Jersey and Watertown, Connecticut, the Widmayer family settled in Acton, Massachusetts where Gus attended school from the second grade. He completed his education at the Acton Boxborough Regional Junior and High Schools in that town before being accepted and graduated by the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. His major studies were in Business Marketing and French. He studied abroad in 1977-78 at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers, France.

Widmayer worked under his father's tutelage for ten years from 1980 to 1990 before branching out on his own with the formation of a semiconductor processing concern named OX3 Corporation. A lifelong genealogist, he put his hobby to work and in 2003 had his first work printed on the Widmayer family history. The Widmayer family arrived at the port of Philadelphia in 1826 from the farming community of Strumpfelbach in Wurttemberg, Germany. They quickly made their way up to Manhattan where they established themselves as one of the "Uppertendom" families of New York society. In 2005, Widmayer published his second book "Herbert Searvant In The Trials of Cora Chapman". This history recounts the sensational attempted [...] trial of Searvant during 1891. It is a compilation of news items that appeared in the local papers of Brooklyn and New York City. In 2006, "A Gentleman's Guide To The Belvidere Plain In Falmouth, Massachusetts" was published by Asgard House. This book was a monograph on the history of a seaside community in Falmouth, Massachusetts known as the Belvidere Plain in which its people, history, and homes are highlighted.

Widmayer currently resides with his family at Indian Hill House in Groton, Massachusetts.

References

• Open Library, A Gentleman's Guide To The Belvidere Plain, Asgard House, Boston, Mass. 2006.
• Open Library, Herbert Searvant, Asgard House, Boston, Mass., 2005.
• Open Library, Widmayer - A Family History, Asgard House, Boston, Mass., 2003, p. 60.
• WorldCat, Gus G. Widmayer, in the world's largest library catalog online.