โ Scribed by Edwin J. Houston; Stacy Reeves; Wm.H. Wahl
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The subject of this sketch was born in Philadelphia, on December 23, I84O, and received his education in the public schools of his native, city, having been graduated from the Central High School in the class of 186o.
After several years of experience in commercial pursuits he became associated with Mr. J. S. Pennock, with whom he engaged in the plumbing business, under the firm name of Weaver & Pennock, a connection that was severed by his death on July 14, 1891, in his fifty-first year.
From the outset of his career, Mr. Weaver took a lively interest in every movement designed to extend educational advantages to young men, and he was conspicuously active and zealous in promoting the establishment of trades-; schools and in planning and organizing the work of such schools in connection with several institutions and associations, with which he was prominently identified as a mem~ bet and at times as an officer. To this good work, which with him was a labor of love, he devoted a large share of his time and services.
He was active in establishing the mechanical handiwork schools of the Spring Garden Institute in 1879 (said to havo been the first manual training school, properly so-called, founded in the United States), and, to the success of this enterprise, which was due in great measure to his active interest therein as chairman of the committee, and to the large share of public attention it attracted, the subsequent formation of similar schools in connection with the public, schools of the city and with Girard College may, we believe, not improperly, be ascribed.
Mr. Weaver was also instrumental in establishing the Trade-school for Plumbers, which ~ยขas later merged in the trades-schools of the Master Builders' Exchange, of Philadelphia, in which institution he was prominent as an organizer and director.
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