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GEORGE R. WEAVER is a son of John and Anna (Benton) Weaver, and was born in Allegany county, New York, April 9, 1834. John Weaver was born in the eastern part of the Empire State, in 1804, but came to Chautauqua county in 1840, when he located in Westfield town. He has made his residence at this place continuously for fifty-one years, and still lives, aged eighty-seven years. Following farming when it was necessary to work hard to produce the same which improved machinery will do by the expenditure of much less toil, he had but little time to waste with politics, although his sympathies and votes were for the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Tilden. His wife was Anna Benton, whom he married in 1827. She bore him eight children and died in 1850, when only forty-four years of age.

George R. Weaver was six years old when he came to Chautauqua county with his father. He was reared on a farm and received the education common schools could confer. Upon attaining his manhood he decided upon agriculture and grape growing for his life’s work, and now owns fifty-six acres lying three miles east of Westfield village admirably adapted for his uses in grape growing.

On November 2, 1859, Mr. Weaver married Augusta Twing, a daughter of Luther Twing, an old resident of this town, by whom he had one son, Ernest E., now married to Lydia A. Boorn, and engaged in farming near the village of Westfield, growing grapes and other fruits.

Politically Mr. Weaver affiliates with the democrats, but is a strong advocate of the temperance cause, and belongs to the Equitable Aid Union, and has been a member of Westfield Grange since 1874. He is a constant attendant of the Baptist church upon whose roll of membership his name is inscribed. He is a man of integrity and honor.