BIO: George J. WEBER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 923 & 924.
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  GEORGE J. WEBER, general merchant at Troutville, Pa., where he is also a 
justice of the peace, has been a lifelong resident of Clearfield county and was 
born November 5, 1865, on his father's farm in Bell township.  His parents were 
Jacob and Elizabeth (Hoeh) Weber, and his grandfather was John Jacob Weber.
  Jacob Weber was born in 1833, in Germany, and was thirteen years of age when 
he accompanied his parents, John Jacob and Susannah (Schoch) Weber, to America.  
John Jacob, or Curly Weber, as he was known to his neighbors in those early 
days, located one mile south of Troutville, in the dense woods of Brady 
township, Clearfield county, and there spent the rest of his days, and after his 
death his son, Jacob Weber, came into possession of the farm.  He lived on the 
old homestead until 1900 when he moved to Troutville.  Jacob Weber was married 
first to Mrs. Elizabeth (Hoeh) Miller, widow of Christian Miller and the 
daughter of German parents, her birth having taken place in Germany.  To her 
first marriage one child was born, Mary, who is deceased, and three children 
were born to her marriage with Jacob Weber:  George Jacob, our subject; Lewis 
Daniel, who is a resident of Troutville; and Susanna, who died at the age of two 
years.  Mrs. Weber died in 1870 and in 1872 Mr. Weber married her sister, Miss 
Eva Hoeh.  Seven children were born to the second marriage, namely:  Elizabeth, 
who is the wife of H. M. Kuntz, of Brady township; Augustus F., who lives in 
Brady township; Catherine M., of Reynoldsville, Pa.; Mary A., who is now 
deceased; Rosanna, who is the wife of Otto Schoch, of Troutville; Nora, who is 
the wife of Godfrey Biehl, of Pittsburg; and Freeda.
  George Jacob Weber was reared on the home farm and obtained a public school 
education.  Being the eldest son he was early called on to give his father 
assistance but he developed more taste for a business career than for an 
agricultural life and in 1890 became a clerk in the store of a brother-in-law, 
in York county, and later took charge of a branch store of the same employer, at 
Philadelphia, where he remained for fifteen months.  About the time the coal 
mines started into operation here, Mr. Weber returned to Clearfield county and 
in partnership with his brother, L. D. Weber, opened up a general store at 
Troutville, business beginning in April, 1892, and they continued together until 
June 2, 1902, when George J. Weber bought the interest of his brother, who had 
entered the employ of the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Company, and 
since that time Mr. Weber has continued the business alone.
  In June, 1889, Mr. Weber was married to Miss Margaret Rishel, a daughter of 
Daniel Rishel, late of Troutville, and they have two children:  Ruth Golden and 
Ethel Jeannette.  Mr. Weber and family attend the Reformed church of which he 
has been a member since he was fifteen years of age.  In politics he is 
Democrat.  Since 1894 he has been serving on the school board and since 1909 has 
been a justice of the peace.  Mr. Weber has been one of the stockholders of the 
DuBois National Bank since its organization.