Ohio Biographies



John Weber


John Weber, farmer and horticulturist, P. O. Suffield, was born in Rhine Pfalz Byron, Germany, September 13, 1833, and immigrated to America in 1854, where he married, October 28, 1856, Miss Margaret Wilhelm, also born in Germany, then a resident of Suffield Township, this county, and who bore him the following children: Jacob, Mary, George, Adam. Frank, William, John, Albert, Katie, Frederick, Clara, Ellen and Charles. For a few years our subject resided in Tallmadge, Ohio, but finally settled in Suffield Township, this county, where he now resides. He here has a farm of fifty acres highly cultivated and improved, containing a carp pond, and, in addition, in the township an orchard of 600 trees, a vineyard, and other first-class improvements. Mr. Weber does a large business supplying the markets of Akron, Ravenna and Kent with supplies of fruits and vegetables, and is a prosperous citizen. He is a Democrat in politics.

 

From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

 


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