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Howard Weber
HOWARD WEBER, physician and surgeon, East Hickory, was born in Venango
county, Penn., October 28, 1862. He is a son of George K. and Elizabeth Weber,
both of German descent, who, about the year 1850, moved from Centre county,
Penn., to Dempseytown, same State, where they reared a family of ten children
– nine sons and one daughter – and by perseverance and economy accumulated a
snug little fortune. They are still living in comfort at Dempseytown. Dr.
Weber’s brothers, yet living, are as follows: James Buchanan and Charles
Henry, in Greeley, Colo.; Edgar H., in the State of Washington; Judson M. and
Norton, in Dempseytown, Penn. The deceased brothers are Newton, Emerson and
Duff; the sister, Pira Weber, is also deceased. Howard Weber, the subject of
these lines, was educated at Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn., and in 1884
began the study of medicine with Dr. Samuel Sherwell, of Brooklyn,·N. Y. He
entered Long Island Hospital College, Brooklyn, N. Y., in the fall of 1885,
and was graduated in March, 1887. In June of the same year he located at East
Hickory, this county, where he has built up a wide and steadily growing
practice. Dr. Weber was married September 24, 1881, to Etta J., daughter of
Robert Montgomery and Elizabeth Ann Carter, of Dempseytown, Penn., and of
Irish descent, and three children have been born to this marriage, their names
being as follows: Henry Clarence (born February 15, 1883), Mark Urban (born
March 8, 1885) and Savilla Hazel (born November 18, 1888).Source: Page(s) 946-947, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township
and Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed December 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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