Charles A. Weaver, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetCharles A. Weaver
American banker
Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1845
Date of Death: 19-Feb-1906
Profession: banker
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Charles A. Weaver
- Charles A.
- Weaver (born April 11, 1845),(died February 19, 1906), of Moundsville, a notably successful business man, was born in York County, Pennsylvania.
- His father, Elijah Weaver, a native of Maryland, was a whip manufacturer by occupation, and died in 1878, at the age of sixty-one.
- By his wife, Caroline Erb, a native of Ireland, he had six children, the oldest of whom is Charles A.
- The latter embarked in the whip manufacture at the age of twenty, and though burned out in the year 1869, his business became more proportions than before.
- His establishment manufactured about eighty dozen whips per day, and turned out about half the leather whips used in the United States at one time.
- In this manufacture he is associated with John C.
- Bardall under the style of Weaver & Bardall, and he is also a member of the firm of Weaver & Humphreys, manufacturers of brooms, the product of whose establishment is about 125 dozen per day. Mr.
- Weaver's energies as a manager and financier are not confined to these extensive industries.
- He is also president of the Marshall County Bank, of which he is a founder.
- Charles is also a charter member of the Moundsville Coal company and director of the same.
- He is also a stockholder and director of Citizens' Natural Gas company in Beaver, Pennsylvania.
- Finally, he has business interests in Wheeling, and at various places in Pennsylvania and the west.
- His prominence as his election has recognized a citizen to the office of mayor, and he is now a member of the council.
- Socially he held a high rank, was a Mason of the degree of Knight Templar, and with his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
- Few men in West Virginia were more prominent in business and financial circles.
- His success is creditable, and founded on integrity of character, alertness in affairs and superior executive ability.
- Mr.
- Weaver married December 24, 1867, to Mary Etta Richardson, daughter of W.
- F.
- and Mary Richardson, of Pittsburgh, and seven children have been born to them: May E., Charles A., William F., Harry E., Carrie, deceased, Mary Etta and Walter M.
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