Volume 9 , Issue 50

Pioneer George Weaber - Dacoma, OK

Here is a bio of a northwest Oklahoma pioneer that settled in the Dacoma, Oklahoma area. The thriving little community of Dacoma, Oklahoma was especially fortunate in its men of business and finance. Among them no one was held in higher respect, esteem than the energetic, progressive cashier of the State Bank of Dacoma. That business man was George Weaber.

George Weaber was born August 5, 1873, on a farm in Miami County, Indiana, the son of Jacob and Anne Weaber, natives of Switzerland. The father was engaged in agricultural pursuits throughout a long, successful career, died December 31, 1887. The mother survived until October 20, 1895, and passed away at Diller, Nebraska. There were three sons and two daughters in the family, as follows: Elizabeth; John, a resident of Oklahoma City; Henry; George, of Dacoma, Oklahoma; and Ida, the wife of John Brown, a farmer of Lockhart, Texas.

George received ordinary educational advantages in his youth, boyhood being passed much the same as other Indiana farmers' sons. When he was fourteen years old, his father died, and he early became self-supporting, learning the value of self reliance. For five years he was connected with a mercantile concern as salesman, but in 1902 he became the head of a business of his own when he came to Oklahoma and located at Augusta, opening a grocery. George conducted this business with a fair measure of success for two years, but in 1904, recognizing an opportunity, seeing the chance to enter financial operations, he went to Dacoma, Oklahoma and with others established the State Bank of Dacoma, an institution of which he had continued to be cashier to the year of 1916. or so. In 1916, the capital of the State Bank was $15,000, while its average deposits amounted to $81,000. It was located in the heart of a rich farming country, its twelve stockholders, with the exception of two, were agriculturists of this locality.

Mr. Weaber was the dominant factor in the management of the State Bank, under his able direction some might say it had grown and developed steadily, continuing to maintain a high reputation in banking circles of Northwest Oklahoma.

George Weaber was a democrat in politics, but took no very active part in public affairs, save for the immediate affect of the welfare of his adopted place of Dacoma, Oklahoma.

On April 1, 1906, Weaber was married at Dacoma, Oklahoma to Miss Edith Stoner, who was born in Pennsylvania, September 20, 1884, a daughter of Christian and Mary Stoner, natives of the keystone State. George and Edith Weaber were the parents of two daughters and one son: Ivan, born January 5, 1908; Doris, born May 5, 1910; and Gertrude, born August 7, 1912. -- The Standard History of Oklahoma, Vol 4, pg 1545.
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