Charles A. Weaver dating history

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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.