George Weiser ^{1 2 3 4 5}

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  General Notes:

Note to researchers: there are numerous Weiser families in Northumberland with similar given names, so care must be taken when reviewing facts. We suggest consulting the Weiser Family Association publications which keep the various lines in perspective.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Occupation: tanner in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ¹

2. Census in 1850 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ⁷ George Weiser, 65, farmer, is living with Elizabeth, 62; Elizabeth, 30; Louisa, 26; and Malinda 21. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. His real estate is valued at $10,000.

3. Book: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1886. ⁸
George Weiser was married to a Miss Bucher, of Sunbury, by whom he had seven children, \emdash four daughters and three sons. The daughters are still living at Sunbury, viz.: Louisa, widow of Captain Charles J. Brunner, deceased, who was a leading attorney-at-law at Sunbury, and from 1869 to 1883 United States internal revenue collector; Elizabeth, widow of J. Weiser Bassleodder, who was an extensive merchant for many years at Sunbury; Amelia, widow of Rev. Fisher, deceased, a Reformed minister. Of the sons, Dr. George Bucher Weiser alone survives, who also graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and practiced medicine successively at Shamokin, Georgetown, Sunbury and, for the past thirty years, at Millersburg, having practiced forty-three years. The other son, Dr. Charles Shindel Weiser (named in honor of Rev. J. P. Shindel, deceased, an eminent Lutheran minister of Sunbury), was born at Sunbury about the year 1829.

George married Elizabeth Bucher, daughter of Henry Bucher and Catherine Epley. (Elizabeth Bucher was born on 6 Jan 1787 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA,^{1 3 9} died on 17 Jan 1871 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA ¹⁰ and was buried in Sunbury: Lower Cemetery, Northumberland, PA ¹⁰.)