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FRANK W. WEIL. The active business interests of Allentown have no better representative than this gentleman, who is proprietor of the Union Steam Planing Mills, which turn out all kinds of building materials. In addition to that enterprise he also operates a carpet-cleaning establishment, conducting business at No. 1031 Linden Street. The firm of F. W. Weil & Co. gives employment to about thirty men, and occupies a building 34x230 feet in dimensions and three stories in height. They also manufacture wood mantels and grilles and do a large and lucrative business.

Our subject is a native of New York City, where his birth occurred August 2, 1848. He is the son of George P. and Caroline (Myers) Weil, natives of Germany, the former of whom was a prosperous business man of New York. In 1854 the father came to Allentown, where he was prominent in commercial circles and where he resided until his decease, which occurred in 1887, when in his eighty-third year. The mother of our subject is also deceased, having departed this life in 1876, in Allentown.

Frank W. Weil, of this sketch, was the youngest member of his parents’ family of nine children, only four of whom are living. He passed his boyhood and youth in New York City, where he was given a good education, supplementing the knowledge gained in the common schools by a course of study in the Allentown Seminary and Lititz College, Lancaster County, Pa. Later he entered the business college of Bryant & Stratton in Brooklyn, and graduated from that college in 1869. In 1870 Mr. Weil came to Allentown and at once established himself in his present business. He is regarded as one of those men of progressive ideas who endeavor to keep pace with the latest methods in the way of machinery in his line, and by so doing has built up a large trade.

August 11, 1870, our subject and Miss Sally Wenner were united in marriage. The lady was born in Allentown and is a daughter of Peter and Maria E. Wenner, old settlers of Allentown. They have had born to them a family of six children, whom they are educating in the best possible manner and fitting to become good and useful citizens.

In politics Mr. Weil is a Democrat, and in social affairs belongs to Barger Lodge No. 333, F. & A. M. He is also a prominent member of Greenleaf Lodge No. 257, K. of P., in which order he has held all of the offices. He is a consistent member of the Lutheran Church, worshiping with the congregation of St. Michael’s. Mr. Weil occupies a good residence at No. 1036 Linden Street, where, with his good wife, he entertains their host of warm friends.