Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Weatherbee, Elias B. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Weatherbee, Elias B., Warren, is a son of Brayton A. and Philina H. (Bell) 
Weatherbee.  His grandfather was Alvin, who was a son of Lucius, who came from 
Bellow's Falls, Vt., about 1805 and built a tannery.  He died in 1834,leaving 
one son, Alvin, born 1798.  He died in 1884 and his wife at an earlier date.  
They had four children:  Brayton A., Alvin E., Emmagene and Leona.  Brayton A. 
Weatherbee was born July 16, 1820, at Page's Corners.  At the age of eighteen 
he engaged in milling and tanning. He owns 250 acres, grist mill tannery, with 
one of the best water powers in the country, coming from springs on the farm.  
The pond is well stocked with trout.  He has a fine residence.  He has also 
invented, made and had patented a stone gathering machine, which works well.  
He is a director of the First National Bank of Richfield Springs, a 
stockholder in and director of the National Mohawk Valley bank, and was active 
in securing the railroad to Richfield Springs.  He married in 1851, Philena, 
daughter of Joseph and Harriet (Patterson) Bell, who bore him four children:  
Rose P., wife of Walton D. Gregory, of Newark, N.J.; Elias B., Willard R. and 
Hattie E., (deceased).  Mrs. Weatherbee died in 1880.  She was a member of the 
Universalist church.


Additional Comments:
source --
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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