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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 Copper Allen township; Mary died 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.