BIOGRAPHY: Herbert H. WEAVER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 56-7
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HERBERT H. WEAVER, Assistant General Manager of the Cambria Iron Company, is a 
son of Samuel E. and Louisa (Domm) Weaver, and was born in Dixon, Illinois, 
January 1, 1859.
     His ancestors were natives of New England, whence they emigrated to the 
Genesee valley, New York. From there they went to Northwestern Pennsylvania. 
Henry Weaver, grandfather of our new subject, settled in Northwestern 
Pennsylvania, where the father of Herbert H. Weaver was born, in the upper 
valley of the Allegheny, probably in Armstrong county, near Kittanning. He went 
west for a time, but in 1860 moved to Johnstown, dying there in 1893. He was for 
many years assistant superintendent of Wood, Morrell & Co.'s store, latterly 
merged into the Penn Traffic company.
     The mother of Mr. Weaver was born in 1837, near Berlin, Somerset county. 
She is the daughter of Casper Domm, a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, who 
emigrated to America in 1825 and located near Berlin, where he lived until 1874, 
when he located permanently in Johnstown, having lived there also some prior to 
that period. He died in Johnstown in 1891, aged eighty-six years. His avocation 
was that of a contractor and builder. Mr. Weaver has one brother and one sister 
living; Walter S., who is chief time-clerk for the Cambria Iron company, and 
Lulu M., wife of M. G. Moore, who is employed as a mining engineer by the 
Cambria Iron company. Another brother, Frank R., died in 1880 at the age of 
seventeen.
     On September 23, 1884, he married Jennie Nitterauer, a daughter of Rev. 
Cornelius Nitterauer, of Ohio, a minister of the Lutheran church, and who was 
located at Blairsville, Pennsylvania, at the time of his death. The family of 
Mr. Weaver, as is shown by this sketch, is composed of prosperous, intelligent 
people. He has three children: Louisa D., born July 4, 1885; Frank R., born 
November 28, 1887; and Alan M., born September 15, 1891.
     He was educated in the public schools of Johnstown, and passed his 
examination for the high school at the age of fourteen, an evidence of the 
possession of industrious habits and unusual ability. Being ambitious to begin a 
business career, he took a position with the Cambria Iron company in 1873 as an 
office boy. He had in him the elements of success, and consequently rose 
steadily. In 1876 he was made a clerk in the general office; in 1877 he became 
assistant cashier; in 1883 assumed general duties in connection with the order 
department; in 1889 he was given the very responsible position which he now 
holds, and which includes the supervision of the clerical forces of the Company. 
In the absence of the general manager he acts with full authority, his position 
being as stated in the beginning, that of assistant general manager. Mr. Weaver, 
although a prominent man, and one who could command good support, has never been 
an office-seeker.
     In 1880 he joined company H, Fifth regiment, National guards of 
Pennsylvania, and in this capacity, too, received deserved promotions, being 
first raised from a private to the position of first lieutenant of the company, 
later was made adjutant of the regiment, and finally became an aid on the staff 
of Governor James A. Beaver, being on his staff until January, 1885, when he 
withdrew from the service.