Benjamin L. Weber, section 33, Wayne Township, was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, March 19, 1845. His father, Benjamin B. Weber, was born in Herkimer County, New York, September 10, 1811, and was married in his native county August 13, 1835 to Julia Ann Lowe, who was born in Worcester County, Massachusetts, March 28, 1813, and removed with her parents to New York when a child.
Soon after their marriage they moved to Cattaraugus County, where Mr. Weber died in 1848. In 1853, Mrs. Weber moved to Liber, Jay County, Indiana, that her children might have the advantage of attending Liber College, with which her father, Jonathan Lowe, was prominently connected. She had three children – Harriet A., who is now the wife of Elihu Votaw of Geneva, Ohio; Theresa R., who married Thomas Bosworth and died in 1881 and Benjamin L. Mrs. Weber still lives at Liber.
Benjamin L. Weber was reared from his eighth year in Liber, and was educated in the college of that place. He was connected with the college nearly the whole of its existence either as student, clerk, librarian or trustee. Mr. Weber has a good farm of fifty acres on the west half of the northwest quarter of section 33. He married Mary Wells, daughter of Jonathan R. Wells, an early settler of Jay County. They have two children – Elizabeth R. and Annie May.
Mrs. Weber’s father was born in
Pennsylvania and was there married to Sarah Mendenhall, and afterward moved
to Ohio and thence to Indiana, living a short time in Randolph County, and
then locating permanently in Jay County, in Jefferson Township, where he
improved a farm, which he afterward sold and moved to Liber, where he and
his wife both died. They had a family of nine children, three sons and six
daughters, but four are living – Mrs. Margaret Mills of Missouri; Mrs.
Melissa Faris of Penn Township; Mrs. Mary J. Weber and Mrs. Annie LaFollette
of Portland.
Biographical and Historical Record Jay
County, IndianaLewis Publishing Co, 1887