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Weaver
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The Weaver family of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, which
is represented in Meadville by the well known architect, Edwin Joseph
Weaver, has been resident in the state of Pennsylvania for a number of
generations. The American
progenitors of the family came to this country from Germany, and the
original spelling of the name was Weber, of which the English form Weaver
is a literal translation.
(I) Michael Weaver, the first of whom we have definite
record, was probably born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, from
whence he migrated to Mercer county, in the same state.
He was a shoemaker by trade, a calling with which he was
identified throughout his life. He
married Elizabeth Smoyer, daughter of Jacob Smoyer, and had these
children: Mary, John, Henry,
Elizabeth, Joseph and Lydia.
(II) Joseph Weaver, son of Michael and Elizabeth Weaver,
was born in Greenville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, August 28, 1839, and
died at his home in New Hamburg, in the same county, November 19, 1910. For many years he was employed in carpenter work, and in his
younger years went to the oil section. Returning to Mercer county in 1873, he spent the remainder of his
life there. He was Republican
his political allegiance, and his religious faith was that of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Intensely
patriotic, he was the first volunteer in his district at the time of the
outbreak of the Civil War, enlisting in April, 1861, and serving actively
until the close of the war. He
married in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1866, Maria, born at
Big Bend, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, January27, 1845. She was the daughter of
Alexander and Bessie Morrow, of
Scotch-Irish extraction, who emigrated to the United States about the year
1840, and settled on a farm near the Big Bend of the Shenango river. Mr.
and Mrs. Weaver had children: Carrie,
born June 10, 1867; Lillian, April 10, 1869;
A.M., May 1, 1871; Edwin
Joseph; William R., born March 26, 1879.
(III) Edwin
Joseph Weaver, son of Joseph and Maria (Morrow) Weaver,
was born in
Delaware township, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, April 26, 1873. In the common schools of this district he acquired a sound
practical elementary education, being graduated from them March 2, 1892. He then became a student at the Fredonia Institute, from which he
was graduated in the class of 1899, the degree of Bachelor of Sciences
being conferred upon him. He
made an especial study of architecture, and has achieved some excellent
results in this direction. He
combines original ideas with the best that has been attained in older
times, and the combination is a most happy one. He located in Sharon, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1906, and removed
from there to Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in May 1911.
Among the best known of the buildings he has erected in Sharon are:
The Sharon Hotel, the Harmony Bank, Lafayette street school and the
Jefferson street school. Among
his most notable constructions in Meadville are: The plant for the City Ale Brewing Company, and the business
buildings for the Moore Brothers, Drefus Brothers and the
McCroskey Renner
Company. He is connected in
an official capacity with the Pittsburgh Deposit and Title Company. He gives his support politically to the Republican party, but his
many and diversified business occupations have never allowed time for the
holding of public office. He
is a member of the Park Avenue Congregational Church of Meadville, and is
a member of Sharon Lodge, No. 250, Free and Accepted Masons; Sharon Lodge,
No. 103, Benevolent and Protected Order of Elks; and the Elks Club,
Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Weaver married at Sharon, Pennsylvania, June 15, 1904,
Elizabeth Anne, born in Sharon, January 22, 1878, daughter of John James
and Rachel Thomas, whose children are: David, George, William, John J., Morgan, Benjamin and Mrs. John J.
Miller.
Genealogical and Personal History of Western, Pennsylvania
1915, pages 1485-1486.
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