Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Weitz, George H ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com May 13, 2006, 8:30 pm Author: History of Grundy County, 1914 Weitz, George H., whose large and important agricultural interests make him a representative business man of Grundy County, owns 470 acres of land in Erienna Township, on which general farming is carried on, and is also the lessee of numerous feeding stations for stock. George H. Weitz was born in Henry County, Ill., September 17, 1865, and is a son of Conrad and Mary (Horchier) Weitz. The parents were natives of Germany, he of the province of Saxony and she of Hesse Darmstadt. In 1852 they came to the United States, living for a short period at St. Louis, Mo., and later, for one year, at Ottawa, Ill., in the latter part of 1854 settling permanently at Geneseo, Ill., where the father became engaged in business as a contractor and builder. There Conrad Weitz died, April 9, 1896, at the age of seventy years, his widow surviving until September, 1906. They had the following children: Hannah, who is Mrs. John Young, of Wabash County, Ind.; Louis, who is a resident of Carbon Cliff, Ill.; Emma, who is Mrs. William Kinney, of Chicago, Ill.; William, who is a resident of Rock Island, Ill.; George H. and Edward, who died at the age of seventeen years. George H. Weitz was reared at Geneseo, Ill., attended the public schools and took a course in bookkeeping in a commercial college, and afterward was connected with the firm of J. Galligan & Co., the junior partner being W. A. Remington, both members of this firm now being deceased. On July 12, 1890, Mr. Weitz became interested in Stockdale, as a grazing station for stock, and in the fall of 1892 large feeding barns for sheep were erected here. In the same year the Floral Fertilizer Company was organized, which was subsequently taken over by the Stockdale Fertilizer Company, now doing business, which is the fattening of sheep and the feeding of them in transit. In 1905 Mr. Weitz became the lessee of eight feeding stations on the Rock Island Railroad. All kinds of stock are fed and fattened, but the Stockdale station is devoted exclusively to sheep. Stockdale is located four miles west of Morris on the Rock Island Railroad and to carry on the work here a large number of men are employed. Mr. Weitz has made Morris his home since January, 1907. On June 6, 1889, Mr. Weitz was married to Miss Mary Hauschild, who was born in Holstein, Germany, a daughter of John and Margaret (Brandt) Hauschild. The mother of Mrs. Weitz still lives in Germany, where the father died in March, 1909. Twin children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Weitz, on October 28, 1891, Henry and Mae. Mr. Weitz and the family attend the Congregational Church. He has always been identified politically with the Republican party. In Masonry Mr. Weitz is prominent, at present being Eminent Commander of Blaney Commandery, Knights Templar. page 919 Additional Comments: Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. Publishers; 1914 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/weitz1048nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb