BIO:  GEORGE B. WEBER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 811-812
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    GEORGE B. WEBER, one of the prominent farmers and dairymen of East
  Pennsboro township, Cumberland county, was born Nov. 29, 1862, son of Henry
  Weber, who was born Oct. 6, 1831, near New Cumberland, Cumberland county,
  Pennsylvania.

    The founder of the family in Cumberland county was one Henry Weber, who was
  born in Lancaster county, Pa., and settled in Lower Allen township, Cumberland
  county, where he followed milling along the Yellow Breeches creek, dying there
  at the age of sixty years. He was buried on his property. His son Abraham,
  grandfather of George B., was born in Lancaster county in, 1800, came to
  Cumberland with his father, and engaged in farming on the Col. Hughs farm, in
  Upper Allen township. He died in 1875. He was a faithful member of the
  Mennonite Church. His wife was Mary, daughter of Peter Zimmerman, and she
  died aged eighty-four years. They had the following children born to them:
  Esther, widow of Isaac Burgert, lives in Lancaster county, and her children
  are Mary, Rebecca and Amos; Mattie is the wife of David Groff, of one of the
  wealthy old agricultural families of Lancaster county; Anne (deceased)
  married John Castle, of Lancaster Junction; Elizabeth, unmarried, lives with
  her brother Henry in Upper Allen township; Mary died

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  in infancy; Barbara died at the age of thirty-eight years, wife of Daniel
  Bear, of Lancaster county, leaving children - Benjamin, Mary, Annie, Martha
  and Elizabeth; Abraham died in infancy; Susan died unmarried, aged forty
  years; Catherine, wife of Christian Hertzler, of Upper Allen township, has
  children - Mary, Barbara, Abraham, Henry, Annie and Alice.

    Of Abraham Weber's brothers and sisters, Henry, born in Lancaster county,
  came to Cumberland, married Mary Hirst, and died in Lower Allen township;
  John, born in Lancaster county, married Esther Zimmerman, and both died in
  Lower Allen township; Christian, born in Lancaster county, married Elizabeth
  Hess, now deceased, and follows farming in Lower Allen township; Elizabeth
  married Christian Zimmerman, and both died in Lower Allen township; Mattie
  married his brother, Peter Zimmerman, and both died in Lower Allen township;
  Nancy died unmarried in Lower Allen township.

    Henry Weber was born Oct. 6, 1831, attended one year at the Lower Allen
  district school and completed his education at Center Square, in Upper Allen
  township. Until his marriage, at the age of twenty-seven years, he worked for
  his father, and then located in Upper Allen township, where he now lives
  retired. He is a man of large means and one who enjoys the esteem of his
  neighbors.

    Mr. Weber married Susan Brenner, daughter of George and Annie Brenner, of
  German extraction. She died in 1888, aged fifty-two years, and lies buried at
  Slate Hill. Their children were as follows: Anna Mary is the wife of Reuben
  Cockley, a farmer in Monroe township, near Churchtown; Elizabeth Jane married
  Henry Mann, a farmer in Lower Allen township; Abraham, a farmer in Monroe
  township, married Lucy Couch; George B. married Ida Shealey; Alice married
  John Roth, of near Shiremanstown; Henry married Annie Shealey, and lives at
  Cedar Run; Samuel, of Cumberland, married Minnie Dietz, now deceased.

    George B. Weber was born in Upper Allen township, where he was educated in
  the township schools. He remained with his father until his marriage, in
  1884, to Ida Shealey, daughter of Jonathan and Leah (Bosley) Shealey, of
  Lower Allen township. They then located in Hampden township, on the Schupp
  farm, for two years, spent one year in Silver Spring township, two years in
  Lower Allen, and one year on the Henry Yohn farm. Mr. Weber then removed to
  the Frank Martin farm, in East Pennsboro township, for four years, and then
  operated a farm near New Cumberland for three years. In 1899 he bought his
  present farm of Henry Booser, in East Pennsboro township, which contains 115
  acres. His long experience has made Mr. Weber a good and careful farmer, and
  his present place, under fine cultivation and with excellent improvements,
  shows that he is a good manager. In addition to farming he carries on a dairy
  business, disposing of his milk in Fairview.

    Mr. and Mrs. Weber have had five children: Viola M., Paul S., George G.,
  Vesta V. and Robert L. Politically Mr. Weber is a stanch Republican. He was
  reared in the Mennonite faith, his father being a preacher and one of the
  leading members of that religious body in this locality.