Y. J. Weaver

As printed in 1906

J. WEAVER, senior member of the wholesale grocery firm of \Y. J. Weaver & Son, at Circleville, has been very prominently identified with the city's business interests for many years. He was born in Walnut township, Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1840, and is a son of Isaac and Sarah (Feltcrs) Weaver.

The parents of Mr. Weaver were born in Virginia and were pioneers in Pickaway County. They were married at Lancaster. Ohio, and started for their new home in the wilds of Pickaway County, riding on horseback as far as Belleville, Richland County, where they took a covered wagon and after reaching their destination, in 1823. lived in the conveyance until a cabin could lie built. Isaac Weaver continued to farm in Walnut township, until 1871, when he retired and in the following year removed to Circleville* where he lived until his death, at the age of 84 years. His wife survived into her 92nd year.

W. J. Weaver attended the public schools and spent two years at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and then went to teaching. He was not much more than 20 years old when he went into a general mercantile business at Nebraska, Pickaway County, where he remained some five years. He then removed to Circleville. where he became a clerk in an express and retail grocery business. In 1870 he embarked in the queensware business but later sold out this line and continued a retail grocery business until 1884. when he went into the wholesale trade. He formed a partnership and the business was conducted under the firm name of Weaver & Shulze, until 1899, at which time Mr. Weaver bought his partners interest and admitted his son Charles F. to membership. The firm became then Weaver & Son. During 1885-86, covering a period in which his father owned the Pickaway Drug Store, he was its manager, but otherwise the greater part of his business life has been associated with the wholesale grocery trade. He began as one of the drivers and is now a partner.

In 186*1. W. J. Weaver was married to Ella M. Cole, who is a daughter.of Richard

Cole, who was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, but who was engaged in farming and milling for many years in Pickaway County. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver have but one son, Charles F., who has been almost continuously connected with the grocery trade since 1882. In 1887, Charles F. W ever was married to Hattie R. Morrow, who is a daughter of Stephen Morrow, of Portsmouth, Ohio. They have one daughter, Helen. Like his father, Charles F. Weaver is a 32nd degree Mason. He is also an Elk.

W. J. Weaver has been very closely connected with a number of Circleville’s most prosperous enterprises. In 1882, with other capitalists, he organized-the Third National Bank of Circleville, of which he was vice-president and president for 22 years. He was one of the incorporators of the Scioto Valley Traction Company, and was a member of the board of directors for three years during its construction. He was also one of the main organizers and incorporators of the Circleville Water Supply Company, of which he has been vice-president ever since its organization. He was one of the founders of the Board of Trade of Circleville and served as its first president. It was during his incumbency that the American Strawboard works were established in Circleville, in large degree through Mr. Weaver’s efforts, he being one of the three delegates sent to Akron, Ohio, to secure the same. He has been president of the Forest Cemetery Association for many years. Mr. Weaver is a man of great business sagacity. He is also one of the city’s most cultured citizens. having broadened his mind through extensive traveling, including many visits to different portions of the United States and all ox er Europe.

As printed in History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.