BIO:  Henry B. WEANER, Straban Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 512

HENRY B. WEANER, farmer and stock-grower, P. O. Gettysburg, was born in this 
county September 22, 1827, a son of Conrad (a farmer by occupation) and Sarah 
(Bream) Weaner, natives, respectively, of York and Adams Counties, Penn.  Their 
family consisted of twelve children, ten of whom grew to maturity of which 
number, Henry B. is the second.  Our subject was reared on the farm, attended 
the common schools, and at the age of eighteen commenced to learn the carpenter 
trade, a vocation he followed twelve years.  In 1856 he married Margaret E. 
Cashman, a lady of German origin, daughter of William Cashman; she bore her 
husband seven children, of whom the following are living:  Cornelius J., James 
O. G. and Phebe Jane.  The family are members of the Lutheran Church.  Mr. 
Weaner has served his township as school director; has been successful in 
business, at present owing 125 acres of land.  Politically he is a Democrat.