Children
Unknown
Sibling(s):
Charles
K. Weaver
Frank M. Weaver
Helen R. Weaver |
Notes:
Easton Express, Wednesday, July 9, 1958, page 14
Frank M. Weaver, Easton Native, Lafayette Grad
Frank Morris Weaver, a niative of Easton and retired Lansdale
industrialist, died early yesterday at his apartment in Lansdale.
He was 79 years old.
Mr. Weaver was an authority on American antiques. He sold
his famous collection in 1952 in a large five-day sale.
Mr. Weaver was a graduated from Lafayette College in 1901.
At college he was president of his class and was a fottball
player and pole vaulter.
As a young civil engineer, he heldp desing and build the Philadelphia
subway system. In 1914 he fromed his how company, the Frank
M. Weaver Structural Steel Co., at Lansdale. He sold his interest
in the company in 1930 to devote full time to antiques.
Early in his career he was with the Pennsylvania Railroad,
the American Bridge Co., and the Kruse-Kemper Co.
Active in community affairs, Mr. Weaver was former president
of the Lansdale Rotary Club. He was former president of the
old Lansdale Trust Co.
He also had served as president of the Fairmount Fire Co.
and the Lansdale Building and Improvement Association.
Mr. Weaver was born in Easton Dec. 5, 1878, a son of the late
Wiliam Stewart and Susan Keifer Weaver. He was a Protestant.
Surviving are a son, Frank M. Weaver Jr., Glen Ridge N.J.;
a daughter, Dorothy, wife of Dr. William Craig Hendricks, Brookville,
Pa.; a sister, Miss Helen Weaver, Easton; a brother, Charles
K. Weaver, Coral Gables, Fla., who formerly owned a hardware
store on Northampton street just west of Fourth; seven grandchildren
and four great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday from the Hunsicker
Funeral Home, Souderton. |
