California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


J. E. WELLER. � The financial interests of a large aggregation of the 
people resident in and near Fort Bragg are wisely conserved through the 
agency of the First National Bank of Fort Bragg, an institution that during the 
more than two decades of its existence has had a steady growth in number 
of depositors, amounts of deposits and confidence of the public. Business 
men have found the concern alive to their welfare and concerned in their 
prosperity. Those desirous of commercial credit or loans have been accom- 
modated generously, when the security of the funds has not been jeopardized 
thereby. All in all, the organization has been governed by a directorate pro- 
gressive yet cautious and accommodating yet conservative, and these prin- 
ciples have been carried out in the policy of the officers, particularly in the 
executive supervision of the president, J. E. Weller, who in 1891 came to 
California and settled at Fort Bragg shortly after the establishment of the 
bank, and entered the institution in a minor capacity, gradually advancing 
until he was finally promoted to his present position of authority and financial 
leadership. 

A native of Bradford county, Pa., and a graduate of the high schools at 
Athens, that state, T. E. Weller has been self-supporting from the age of 
seventeen years and meantime has developed qualities of self-reliance and 
sagacious judgment of the utmost value to him in the serious undertakings 
of his business career. For three years he was employed in the Santa Fe 
office at Topeka, Kan., and in the same city he gave five years of commercial, 
salaried service to the firm of Stephenson & Peckham. From Kansas he came 
to California, where ever since he has been identified with the First National 
Bank of Fort Bragg and as a leading citizen and president of the local Cham- 
her of Commerce, he has been a leader in civic alifairs. In this town he has 
fraternal connections with the Odd Fellows and Masons and his associations 
of that nature are increased by membership in the Santa Rosa Lodge of 
Elks and the Improved Order of Red Men. His family consists of his wife 
and daughter. Lucille, the former having been Miss Helen Stewart, of Glens 
Falls. N. Y.