He made collections of lepidoptera, and discovered several important species, among which was the Limenitis weidemeyerii (Weidemeyer's Admiral) of the Adirondack mountains.
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In 1841 he wrote a play entitled The Vagabonds, which was produced at the Franklin Theatre in New York City and the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and at one point he was preparing Cæsar and Cleopatra, an acting drama.
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In Germany, his father had been an officer in the bodyguards of Jérôme Bonaparte, king of Westphalia.
It is named after John William Weidemeyer, a 19th-century entomologist who discovered it in its former eastern range extension into the Adirondack mountains.
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