BIO:  Gates B. WEISER, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 55

GATES B. WEISER was born in York in 1852, and is a son of Gates J. and Elmira 
(Brown) Weiser, the former of whom was born in 1824, and died in 1883.  Gates J. 
was educated at the York County Academy.  When a young man he engaged in the 
lumber business with his father, Daniel Weiser, and after the death of the 
latter formed a partnership with John M. Brown.  Retiring from business for a 
few years, he again engaged in the lumber business with Small, Bender & Co., as 
one of the firm.  This firm was afterward changed to Bender & Weiser.  
Subsequently they established a business in Center County, Penn., the firm being 
known as Weiser & Bender.  In 1875 he returned from Center County to York, 
Penn., and retired from business, selling his interest in the firm of Bender & 
Weiser to his two sons, James M. and Gates B., and known as Weiser Bros.  After 
the death of James M. in 1876, G. B. bought his interest, and continued under 
the same firm name until 1883.  G. B. Weiser was married, in 1884, to Miss 
Minnie M. Blummer, a native of Philadelphia.  They have one child – Isadore E.  
He now resides in a beautiful residence at Prospect Hill.  In politics Mr. 
Weiser is an Independent.