BIO:  Franklin S. WEISER, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 55

FRANKLIN S. WEISER, a prominent manufacturer of York, was born in the county 
September 25, 1825, and a son of Jacob and Sarah Weiser.  His father being 
engaged in the mercantile business, our subject was early instilled with 
business ideas, being an assistant of his father.  He received a good education, 
having the supplementary advantage of the York County Academy.  At the age of 
eighteen he began an apprenticeship to learn the carpenter’s trade, and 
subsequently followed that trade for five years in Baltimore, Md.  Returning to 
York he formed an association with Jacob Weiser in the coal and lumber business, 
which continued until 1860, when he became the sole owner.  He has since 
continued in this business, and has also become a manufacturer of cigar and 
paper boxes.  Mr. Weiser is a progressive business man; has been a director of 
the York County Bank and of the York & Chanceford Turnpike Company, and also 
prominent in the Lutheran Church.  Mr. Weiser was married, March 25, 1852, to 
Barbara S., daughter of Jacob Stahle, of Manchester Township.  They have had 
born to them six children:  Robert S., deceased; Sarah K., deceased; Jacob S., 
deceased; Harvy K., William H. and Eugene F.