The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 691

JOHN H. WEIGEL.

John H. Weigel has since 1903 been numbered among the leading merchants of
Yakima, where he is engaged in the clothing, shoe and hat trade, having the
second oldest clothing house of the city. Mr. Weigel is of European birth. His
natal year was 1872 and when a lad of nine years he came to the United States
with his parents, C. C. and Elizabeth Weigel, who settled in Wisconsin, where
they lived for about two years and then removed to Huron, South Dakota. They
afterward took up their abode upon the Pacific coast, making their way to The
Dalles, Oregon, in 1886, and there the father is now living retired.

John H. Weigel acquired a public school education in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and
when a youth of sixteen years entered the dry goods business as a clerk and thus
gained his initial experience along commercial lines. He started in business for
himself in Yakima in 1903 and has the second oldest clothing house of the city.
He established the business, in connection with E. M. Williams, under the firm
style of John H. Weigel & Company and their first location was at the corner of
Third street and East Yakima avenue. In January, 1906, a removal was made to the
Washington Hotel building, Mr. Weigel becoming the first tenant of that
building. He handles an extensive line of men's and boy's clothing and
furnishings, purchasing his stock from a number of the best known and most
reliable manufacturing houses of the country. The business includes a complete
shoe and hat department and four people are regularly employed. The building
occupied has a fifty foot frontage on East Yakima avenue and a depth of seventy
feet. A gratifying trade is enjoyed and the business is one of the important
commercial enterprises of the city.

Mr. Weigel was married in 1900 to Miss Mattie Cushing, of The Dalles, Oregon,
and their children are Maurice and John. Mr. Weigel belongs to Yakima Lodge, No.
24, F. & A. M., also to the Elks lodge and to the Commercial Club, and in the
last named has served on the board of directors for many years. He also has
membership in the Yakima Valley Business Men's Association, of which he was
formerly the president. He is also a member of the Country Club and his
political allegiance is given to the republican party but he has never been an
aspirant for office, preferring to concentrate his energies and attention upon
his commercial activities. A spirit of progressiveness and energy has carried
him steadily forward and he has prominent rank among the energetic, farsighted
and successful business men of his adopted city.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.