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In 1888 Mr. Weaver was married to Mary E., daughter of John T. and Julia (Bush) Burdge, of Allentown, formerly of New Jersey. They have one son, Edgar, a graduate of the Allentown high school with the class of 1904, and now an efficient electrician in the employ of the Bell Telephone Company. The son was married to Mary B., daughter of Morris Schantz, of Allentown, and they have a son, Franklin S. They are members of the Linden Street Methodist Episcopal church.
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Jacob Weber, eldest son of Frederick, the emigrant, settled in later years in Allen town- ship, where he died June 30, 1790. He was a farmer and tanner and had four children: George, Jacob, John and Catharine. Catharine was born in 1763, married Henry Fatzinger and died in 1835.
Jacob Weaver, who is said to have been a son of Jacob, Sr., was born in Upper Saucon, Aug. 8, 1774. He removed to Allentown and died there Aug. 4, 1855. His wife, Susanna, was born Dec. 19, 1777, and died Jan. 18, 1855. They had six children : Thomas, born 1799, died 1860; Margaret, born 1800, died 1886, unmar- ried; David, born 1802, died 1879, unmarried ; Sarah, born 1806, died 1874, unmarried ; Joseph, and Solomon.
Joseph Weaver was born in 1813, and died in 1877. He married Sarah Ritter, born 1821, died 1883, and had two children: Thomas, who married Elemina Butz, and Susie, born May 5, 1847, who married, Sept. 14, 1865, Samuel Adams, of South Bethlehem, born July 25, 1837, died Feb. 22, 1902, and had four children : John, Joseph W., Henry and Susie.
Solomon Weaver, youngest son of Jacob, was born in 1826, and died in 1857. He was a mer- chant on Hamilton street, east of Tenth street, and married Sarah Ludwig. They had two sons : Milton D. and Jacob D.
Jacob D. Weaver, son of Solomon, was edu- cated in the schools of the city and the Allen- town Academy. From 1874 to 1886, he was en- gaged in the cigar manufacturing business with his brother, after which he was for four years in the meat business. From 1890 to 1898, he was a member of the firm of Reinhard and Weaver, contractors, and from 1898 to 1904, of the Allentown Paving and Construction Com- pany, after which he continued the contracting business alone. Mr. Weaver married, in 1875, Maria Kressley, and they had six children: a son, died young; Solomon N .; Addie S .; Dr. Joseph M .; Margaret, married Donald McKen- zie, and Ruth C.
SOLOMON N. WEAVER, son of Jacob D., was born Dec. 10, 1875, and was educated in the public schools and high school of Allentown. He early entered business life as superintendent for the firm of Reinhard & Weaver, with whom he continued for three years, after which he was a member of the firm of Allentown Paving and Construction Company from 1898 to 1904. On April 1, 1904, he started the Weaver Contract- ing Company, of which he is sole owner, and is engaged as a general contractor in heavy con- struction work and cement work. Among the contracts executed by this company have been
work on the H. Leh & Co. building, the ap- proaches for the Catasauqua bridge, the pikes in Whitehall township through Cementon and from Coplay to Egypt, sewers in and about the city of Allentown, and superintending ,the paving with vitrified brick and macadam of the road from Wilkes-Barre to Kingston. He employs on an average forty-five men. Mr. Weaver also oper- ates the Weaver and the Koehler limestone quar- ries at Sumner avenue and Seventh street.
Mr. Weaver married, July 11, 1900, Rebecca Mae Yost, daughter of Rev. Henry Yost, de- ceased, and his wife, Mary Spang, of Reading. They are members of Zion Reformed church. Mr. Weaver is a member of Barger Lodge, No. 333, F. & A. M .; Allen R. A. Chapter, No. 203; Allen Commandery, No. 20, K. T., and Rajah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.
DR. JOSEPH M. WEAVER, son of Jacob D. and Maria Weaver, was born Aug. 14, 1882, in Allentown. He attended the public schools and high school and Muhlenberg College, grad- uating in 1903, then attended a medical college at Philadelphia, graduating in 1906, then en- gaged in practice in Allentown, where he has met with success. He is a member of the follow- ing named societies : American Medical, Lehigh Valley Medical, Lehigh County Medical and Zion Reformed church.
He married, Sept. 25, 1906, Frances Preston Jones.
Henry Weber, a farmer, owned 275 acres in Upper Saucon, where he died about 1783. He had eight children: Henry, Jr., of Upper Sau- con; Caspar, who kept the ferry at Allentown, and whose wife, Anna Maria, died May 6, 1798, aged fifty-two years; John, of Allen township; Michael, of Maxetawny; Elizabeth, wife of Henry Bretz; Sarah, wife of Leonard Reichard; Susanna, married, first, Jacob Beyer, and sec- ond, John Groter, and Hannah, married Joseph Hornecker.
Michael Weaver, born 1770, was of German descent, the son of John and Barbara Weaver. He was an extensive farmer and merchant, and also owned and operated a tannery on his prem- ises in Allen township. Owing to his efforts, a postoffice was established in 1831 and named Weaversville in his honor, and he was the first postmaster.
He was a prominent man in this community; a Whig, and captain of a company in the War of 1812. He married Magdalena Dreisbach, born 1772, died 1860. He died Dec. 2, 1834 .. Issue: David, Thomas and Samuel.
Samuel Weaver, son of Michael Weaver, was. born in 1808 at Weaversville. His education was acquired in the public schools, and at an
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early age he, together with his two brothers, David and Thomas, formed a partnership to carry on the business founded by their father. Later on he purchased his brothers' interests, becoming the owner of the old homestead of 100 acres, with the tannery, located at Catasauqua creek. In 1835 he was appointed postmaster, holding that position during all his lifetime.
His mercantile establishment was the largest in the vicinity. In early days he bought his goods in Philadelphia and New York, they being conveyed to him first by teams, then by canal, and finally by rail.
He was very active in promoting the educa- tional interests of his community. He donated the site of the Weaversville Academy, and was one of the foremost movers in its establishment, and he was secretary of the Board of Trustees until his decease, in 1863. He was a Republican, and for many years the treasurer of the Lu- theran church, and also superintendent of the Sunday school.
He married Sarah Boyer, daughter of Jacob Boyer (a prosperous farmer of Allen township) ; born 1819, in Howertown, and died in 1893. Issue: William T., Amelia M., Jane S., Joseph A., Amanda E., Clinton F., David M., Annie C., Frances C., and Samuel J., of whom below.
William T. became a traveling salesman, and during the war of '61 was a sergeant in the 153d Pennsylvania Infantry. Jane S. married Dr. J. F. Raub, of Washington, D. C. Amanda E. married Rev. E. Martins, of Hillsboro, Ill. Annie C. married George Green, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Frances married and removed to Boston.
DR. SAMUEL J. WEAVER, son of Samuel and Sarah (Boyer) Weaver, was born Sept. 2, 1850, in Weaversville, where he assisted his father in his business, and attended the public schools and the academy, and at the age of seventeen, be- gan the study of medicine with Dr. J. F. Raub.
He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1872, being the youngest in the class. He first engaged in practice in Weaversville, then in 1883 removed to Bethlehem, where he had a large practice.
He was a charter member of the Lehigh Valley Medical Association; an active member of the State, County and American Medical Associa- tions; was medical examiner for various insur- ance companies and fraternal orders. He was a member of the Cypress Commandery, K. of H .; the first treasurer of the Grand Command- ery of the state of Pennsylvania, serving three terms; was a member of the I. O. O. F. and an elder in Christ's Reformed church. In poli- tics, a Republican; from 1888 to 1891, county coroner.
He married, Dec. 5, 1822, Miss Mary J. Weaver, of Lower Saucon. Issue: S. Herbert, who married June 30, 1909, Florence B. Lau- bach, and resides with his mother.
Dr. Weaver died Jan. 17, 1905, and was in- terred in the cemetery at Bethlehem.
Mrs. Weaver, in 1912, removed to West Bethlehem. She is a member of Christ's Re- formed church of Bethlehem, and is also con- nected with the Ladies' Aid Society and the Home and Foreign Missionary Society.
William T. Weaver died at Bethlehem, May II, 1902, aged 64 years. He married Catharine Lilley and had six children : Lewis A., and Fred W., of St. Louis; John D., of the New York Sun; Thaddeus H., of Allentown; Arthur J., of Steelton, and Herbert S., of Bethlehem.
Samuel S. Weaver, son of Tobias Weaver, was born in 1821 in Lower Saucon township. He became the owner of three farms which are now owned by the Lehigh Coke Company. He was a prominent and active citizen of the com- munity; a lifelong member of the Lower Saucon Reformed church; was a deacon, elder and trus- tee. He died in 1908 and was buried at Lower Saucon church.
Samuel S. Weaver married Sarah A. Oberly, daughter of Anthony Oberly. Issue, ten chil- dren: Isadora, who died aged two years; Theo- dorus, died from wounds received at Gettysburg ; Titus, who bought the homestead farm and re- sided there until his decease, in 1911; Mary J., married Dr. S. J. Weaver, of Weaversville; Louisa R., married J. T. Shimer ; Milton S .; Robert N., of Hess Brothers, of Allentown ; Irwin, who died in infancy; Annie, married Rev. S. A. Mitman, of South Bethlehem, and Ida M., married the late Isaac P. Koplin, a carpenter.
MILTON S. WEAVER, son of Samuel and Sarah A. (Oberly) Weaver, was born in 1855, in Lower Saucon, now the home of the Lehigh Coke Company. He was reared upon the farm and when his school days were over, he worked a farm adjoining the homestead, continuing to do so for nine years. In 1888 he came to Beth- lehem and was employed by the Adams Express Company, both as driver and train messenger for a period of about ten years. In 1898 he became one of the organizers of the Hanover Manu- facturing Company, and in 1907 he became the owner of the West End Hosiery Mills, which business he has since carried on. In politics
he is a Republican, is a member of the Improved Order of Heptasophs; was a member of the Bethlehem school board for two full terms.
Milton S. Weaver was married in 1897 to Emma Boyer, daughter of William and Mary
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(Rath) Boyer, of Macunge. Issue: William S., of California, a contractor and builder at Alhambra, Los Angeles county; R. Calvin, of Bethlehem, of the firm of Young & Weaver; Arthur B., employed by Roller Smith Company, Hanover township, and Russell MI., who is his father's assistant.
Thomas Weber lived in Upper Saucon, where he was born and died at Coopersburg, Dec. 6, 1882, aged over seventy years. As early as 1850 he was a tailor at Coopersburg and was a mem- ber of the Lutheran congregation at the Blue church, which he served some years as deacon and elder. He married Susan Funk, of Bucks county, who died March 19, 1885. They had four children: Milton F .; William F .; Pres- ton, who was a partner of his brother, Milton F., in the butchering business and Emma, married George W. Heaney and lived at Coopersburg, where the widow still resides.
William F. Weaber, son of Thomas, was born in Upper Saucon, near Chestnut Hill, Aug. 31, 1846, and died at Allentown, Dec. 29, 1905. He was educated in the common schools and afterward engaged in teaching school for eight years in Salisbury and Lower Macungie and at Applebachsville, Northampton county. Later he attended and graduated from Eastman's Busi- ness College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., when he en- tered the employ of the P. & R. R. R. Co. and for seven years was freight and ticket clerk at the East Penn Junction. In 1877 he be- came bookkeeper and buyer for Leisenring, Trex- ler & Co. and continued with them until 1882, and afterward with their successors, Trexler & Hartzell, as bookkeeper and manager until 1893. Then he became a partner of W. J. Hartzell, trading as the Welt Bote Publishing Company, in which he continued until his death. At the same time he was one of the four partners who started the Allentown Daily Leader, on Aug. 28, 1893, and continued as a partner until his de- cease. He was prominently identified with the Democratic party and was for thirty-eght years a member of Coopersburg Lodge of Odd Fellows. He was one of the organizers of St. Michael's Lutheran church in 1876 and for eight years served as a faithful teacher of the English Bible class.
Mr. Weaber married, Sept. 20, 1870, Tevillia, daughter of Jonas and Matilda ( Hottenstein) Hartzell. She was born in Lower Macungie, Oct. 28, 1851, and died at Allentown, Jan. 3. 1905. They had four children: Oliver T .; Jennie M .; Gertrude E., married Rev. Harry K. Lantz, pastor of the Lutheran church at Shire- manstown, Cumberland County, and Dr. Thom- as H.
Oliver T. Weaber was born in Allentown, June 12, 1871, and was educated in the public schools of the city and the high school, from which he graduated on June 21, 1888. He also attended Eastman's Business College, at Pough- keepsie, N. Y., where he graduated Sept. 26, 1888. He then became yardmaster and dis- patcher for the L. V. R. R. Co. at East Penn Junction and served until April 4, 1890, when he entered the employ of Trexler and Hartzell, publishers, and he continued with them and their successors to the present time. He is now filling the position of business manager of the Daily Leader, and is also acting as manager of the printing department of the Welt Bote Printing Company. He has been one of the publishers of the Allentown directory for five consecutive years, the publishers of which won the "Grand Prix" at the National Convention of the Directory Publishers' Association of the United States. He is also interested in the publication of mercantile directories.
Mr. Weaber is a Democrat in politics and served as a school director in the Fourth ward from 1899 to 1911 and officiated as secretary from 1905. He was also a member of the Board of Control for three years. He served as jury commissioner of the county from 1901 to 1903, and in 1911 was elected recorder of deeds, which office he now fills. He is prominently identified with eleven secret and beneficial societies and passed through the chairs of six of them. He has been a member of the Liberty Fire Com- pany, No. 5, since 1892, served as president for seven years and since 1908 is foreman; and is also a member of the State Firemen's Associa- tion since 1896. Mr. Weaber married, April 18, 1893, Loeda S., daughter of William and Cath- arine (Kern) Sell, of Allentown, and they have three children: Margaret K., William F. and Lucy E.
DR. THOMAS H. WEABER, youngest son of William F., was born in Allentown, July 7, 1883. He attended the public schools of Allen- town, graduating from the high school in 1900 and afterward also from the Bethlehem Prepara- tory School in 1901 and from the medical de- partment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. He was resident physician at St. Luke's Hospital, South Bethlehem, in 1906, and in the fall of that year established an office in Allen- town, locating at 211 North Eighth street, where he has since resided. He has been resident phy- sician for the poor of Allentown since Jan. I, 1908; one of the medical inspectors for the city school district and is examining physician for two life insurance companies. He is a member of the Allentown Academy of Medicine, the Le-
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high County, Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania State Medical Societies and the American Medi- cal Association. He is also a member of Jordan Lodge, No. 673, F. & A. M .; Allen R. A. Chapter, No. 203; Allen Commandery, No. 20, K. T .; Allentown Lodge, No. 130, B. P. O. E., and several other secret societies. He mar- ried, Jan. 20, 1909, Laura, daughter of Harry J. and Laura (Newhard) Dehnhardt, of Allen- town, and they have one child, Jean D.
Henry Weaver is supposed to have come from England to America. He landed at Philadelphia, where for some time he followed cigarmaking. He removed from thence, to Allentown, (date unknown). He became a man of considerable prominence. He was appointed postmaster of Allentown in Feb. 1824, holding the office up to 1833. He was born Feb. 28, 1774, and died Oct. 23, 1836, and was buried in the old ceme- tery at Linden and Tenth streets. His wife, Mary, was born Feb. 24, 1774, and died Aug. 24, 1835. His son, William Wildey Weaver, was born Jan. 10, 1802, in Philadelphia, coming to Allentown with his parents. He was educated in the public schools, and on attaining manhood became the owner of much real estate located in the west end of Allentown. He was for some time engaged in the mercantile business, being associated with Elias Mertz. In politics Mr. Weaver was a Whig, then a Republican, and was a member of the Evangelical Church. He died Dec. 14, 1868, and interment was in Union cemetery.
William Wildey Weaver married April 3, 1832, Catherine Sweitzer, born Jan. 30, 1802, died April 7, 1877, and was also buried in Union cemetery. Issue: (1) Mary S., born Jan. 12, 1835, married Washington F. Christman; (2) Henry Sweitzer, of whom below; (3) Wil- liam Wildey, born Feb. 21, 1837; (4) Ben- jamin Kugler, born July 24, 1840; (5) Eliza- beth Kugler, born April 4, 1842, died April 22, 1842.
Henry Sweitzer Weaver, eldest son of Wil- liam Wildey and Catherine (Sweitzer) Weaver, was born July 24, 1834. As a boy, he attended the public schools and when very young learned the trade of cabinetmaker with S. H. Price and later they formed a partnership, doing business under the firm name of Price & Weaver, which continued until the Civil War, when he sold his interest to Mr. Price. He then became station agent for the L. V. R. R. Co. at Furnace Sta- tion, where he continued for some years. He then resigned to take the position of assistant superintendent of the Roberts Furnace, later be- coming the superintendent, where he continued for seventeen years. He then engaged in the
furniture business under the firm name of Hel- frich, Weaver & Co., the members of the firm being Henry S. and Benjamin K. Weaver, (brothers) and Solomon and M. Alexander Hel- frich (brothers). Mr. Weaver continued a mem- ber of this firm until his decease, Feb. 11, 1897. He was interred in the West End cemetery. He was a valued member of St. John's Reformed church, which he served as deacon for six years. He was very active in all church work. He was a member of the Order of Good Fellows; the I. O. O. F., and the Knights of Honor, being the financial secretary of the latter organi- zation. He was an enterprising and progressive man, devoted to home and family. He planned the home which he built on North Sixth street and supervised its construction. In politics Mr. Weaver was a Republican. He served as a men- ber of the Allentown school board.
Henry S. Weaver married, May 1, 1860, Matilda E. Horn, daughter of George and Cath- erine (Wentz) Horn, of Weissport, Carbon county, Pa. Both the Horn and Wentz families are prominent in that section. Issue: (1) Katherine Elizabeth, and (2) Annie Irene Wea- ver. Katherine E. attended the public and high schools of Allentown, and later became an art pupil of Mrs. Appleton, of Allentown; also of Prof. William Chase, of New York City, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Katherine E. Weaver married Dr. Samuel C. Schmucker, a professor in the State Normal School at West Chester, Pa. He is a writer of note, and has written several books, the illustrations of which were executed by his wife. Issue: Beale W., who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and became a civil engineer, and Dorothy W., a graduate of the State Normal School, the Friends' Select School, of Philadelphia, Wellesly College at Wellesly, Mass. Annie Irene (2) was educated in the public and high schools. She has for several years been a clerk in the postoffice at Allentown, and is a member of St. John's Reformed church. In 1914, with her niece, Dorothy W., she made a trip to Europe and was in Paris at the out- break of the great European War.
WEAVER FAMILY.
The ancestor of the Weaver family emigrated from Germany, and settled in Virginia, after- ward locating in Lehigh (then Northampton) county, Pa. He had a son, Valentine, who was married to a Miss Weygandt. Among their children was a son, Charles, married to Cath- arine Hummel, and they had six children, three sons and three daughters.
Valentine W. Weaver, one of the sons of
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Charles, was born Jan. 9, 1826 in Northampton county. His boyhood days were partly spent in Northumberland county and there he had the educational advantages which those times afforded. He was a clerk at Berlinsville, Mil- ton, Easton, and Catasauqua. At the age of 20 years, he became an apprentice in the Crane Iron Works, and upon learning the trade of ma- chinist he acted as agent of their mining inter- ests at Catasauqua and vicinity.
After filling this position several years, Mr. Weaver became assistant superintendent of the Thomas Iron Co. at Hokendauqua; and he op- erated the Lock-Ridge furnace in the interests of that company. From there he went to Pine Grove and looked after the company's proper- ties for three years. He next served the Millers- town Iron Co. for a time; and in July, 1879, he took charge of the Coplay furnaces, and contin- ued there a number of years.
In 1848, he was married to Mary Mickley, a daughter of Jacob Mickley, of Whitehall town- ship, and they had seven children: William M .; Valentine W .; Lizzie, m. Mr. Yerkes, of Hat- boro, Pa .; Mary, m. H. S. Bachman; Catharine M., of Allentown; and Emily J.
Mr. Weaver served as a director of the Ma- cungie Iron Co., the Hokendauqua Bridge Co., and of the national banks at Catasauqua and Slatington, in which he was financially inter- ested. In politics he was an ardent Republican, but never aspired for office; and in religion he was a Presbyterian.
BENJAMIN H. WEAVER, a brother of Valen- tine W., above-named, was born in Northampton county, Pa., on Aug. 21, 1832. His boyhood days were spent on a farm. His educational training was received in the public school of the village. He clerked for two years in the store of Hallenback & Reets, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
In 1859 he went to Catasauqua and was employed by the Crane Iron Co., for two years; then he responded to the call of President Lin- coln for volunteers and enlisted in Co. A, Ist Penna. Vols., under Colonel Yohe, of Easton. After three months (the term of his enlistment), he returned to Catasauqua. In the same year, however, he re-enlisted for a term of three years, in the 46th Penna. Vols., under Colonel Knipe. He served one year and a half, when he was wounded in the right shoulder at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, on Aug. 9, 1862, and was sent to the hospital at Alexandria, Va., where he was confined from Aug. 9, to Oct. 23, 1862. As a brave and intrepid soldier, he was anxious to rejoin his company, but was honorably discharged on account of physical disability. He returned
to Catasauqua and was re-employed by the Crane Iron Co., as mining agent, which position he held for several years. Since then he has car- ried on mining operations for himself.
On Nov. 4, 1864, Mr. Weaver was married to Mary Duff, daughter of David Duff. They had eight children: Jesse L., deceased; Harry B., superintendent of the Allentown Iron Co .; Gertrude B., deceased ; Ralph S., superintendent of Allentown Portland Cement Co .; Mary Na- omi, who resides with her father; Margaret I., deceased; Adrian B., sales agent for Rogers, Brown & Co., of Chicago; and Cooper F., draftsman for American Steel & Iron Co., at Lebanon, Pa.
Mr. Weaver's affiliations have been with the Republican party since attaining his majority. He and his family are members of the First Pres- byterian church.
HARRY B. WEAVER, son of Benjamin H., was born Dec. 9, 1867, in South Whitehall town- ship. When twelve years old his parents moved to Catasauqua, where he received his education in the borough schools.
In 1889 he entered the Crane Iron Co. labora- tory as a chemist's apprentice and from this start he gradually became sufficiently familiar with the manufacture of pig iron that he was en- trusted with the charge of the following fur- naces: Macungie furnace, at Macungie; Whar- ton furnace, at Wharton, N. J .; Lehigh Steel & Iron Co. Furnace, at Allentown; Durham Iron Works furnace, at Riegelsville; and Bur- den Iron Co. furnace, at Troy, N. Y.
In 1910 he associated with James K. Bowen, of Allentown, in organizing the Allentown Iron Manufacturing Co., for the manufacture of cold blast charcoal iron, and he was elected treasurer and general manager of the company.
Since the incorporation of this company, a superior charcoal iron has been produced under the management of Mr. Weaver, which has re- sulted in the development of a lucrative busi- ness.
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