The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 310

JOHN B. WEEBER

John B. Weeber, who after long identification with meat packing and mining
interests in other sections of the country came to the Yakima valley in 1910,
has since been engaged in orcharding and farming on Naches Heights, where he
owns seventy acres of rich and productive land. The life story of John B. Weeber
is one that indicates triumph over adversity and steady progress, actuated by a
laudable ambition and stimulated by unfaltering industry.

Mr. Weeber was born in Albany, New York, July 4, 1864, a son of Christian and
Dora (Amond) Weeber, both of whom were natives of Germany. The father, however,
had to leave that country on account of being a revolutionist opposed to the
military power and autocracy of that land. He was a butcher by trade and
followed the business in Albany, New York, for many years. Both he and his wife
have now passed away.

John B. Weeber obtained a public scoot education in his native city and became
an active associate of his father in the development of a farm which his father
owned in the vicinity of Albany. He continued to assist in its cultivation until
1881, when at the age of seventeen years he made his way westward to Denver,
Colorado. In that state he devoted his attention to the butchering business and
to mining, becoming owner of several mines. He was interested with a number of
the most prominent mining men of Denver and took out sixty-four thousand dollars
in six weeks from one mine but afterward lost it all. He was a large operator of
several mines and later developed copper mines at various points in Wyoming,
Montana and Utah, but the price of copper slumped as silver had done in 1893.

In 1907 Mr. Weeber arrived on the Pacific coast. He made his way to Portland,
Oregon, and traveled largely over the state. He also spent some time in Kittitas
county, Washington, at Roslyn and at Cle Elum, in the meat packing business, and
in the fall of 1910 he purchased thirty acres of land on Naches Heights. He was
induced to take this step by an old associate from Denver, a Mr. Johnson, who
interested him in buying the place. He has added to his original purchase from
time to time of which twenty-two acres is planted until he now has seventy
acres, constituting a very fine ranch property, to orchards. Everything about
the place is indicative of his progressive methods and the systematic care with
which he conducts his interests.

On the 16th of October, 1887, Mr. Weeber was married to Miss Kate Firsich, a
native of Indiana. Their children were three in number: Arthur J., who is now
with the United States Army in France; Pearl, the wife of Frank Wiethoff, of
Denver, who is also a member of the United States Army; and Emil, who died at
the age of three years.

Mr. Weeber was very active in the Masonic and Elks lodges while in Denver. His
political allegiance is given to the republican party and he is one of the
earnest workers in its ranks, while his opinions carry weight in its local
councils. He has ever stood for progress and improvement in all things relating
to the public welfare and has been largely instrumental in the development of
good roads, in the establishment of the telephone system and in securing the
rural free delivery for new neighborhoods in Yakima county. His efforts have
been far-reaching, resultant and beneficial and his fellow citizens recognize
the value of his efforts along the line of genial development and progress.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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