CHARLES B WEASMER, b 2 Aug 1853

WEASMER, FARLEY, WYCKOFF

Posted By: Donna Moldt Walker (email)
Date: 2/28/2005 at 07:11:17

Charles B. Weasmer, senior partner of the livery firm of Weasmer & Farley, is one of the leading lights in the business circles of Preston, of which he has been a resident some years. He is a very active and enterprising young man, of fine business abilities, and popular both in social and business circles. A native of Grand Gorge, Greene Co., N.Y., he was born Aug. 2, 1853, and was deprived of his father by death when a lad nine years of age. He was then taken into the home of his eldest brother, a resident of Parkesville, where he attended the public school more or less until nineteen years old, and then entered Liberty Academy, which he attended three terms.

At the expiration of this time young Weasmer began working out for the farmers of his native county, which he left at the age of twenty-three years. Upon coming to Iowa he engaged in a saw-mill at Lyons two years, then became interested in lumber, coal, grain, and stock at Preston, and continued with one man until the latter disposed of the business. In the fall of 1887 Mr. Weasmer associated himself with his present partner in the livery business, and they are rapidly building up a good patronage.

The wife of our subject, to whom he was married March 5, 1889, was formerly Miss Laura Farley, daughter of James Farley, one of the earliest settlers of Van Buren Township, coming here as early as 1837. He became one of the most prominent citizens of this section. Mr. Weasmer, politically, is a steadfast Democrat. He is serving a second term as township Clerk, while his natural abilities and fidelity to duty indicated that in the near future he will receive still further honors from his fellow-citizens. Socially, he belongs to the Masonic fraternity, being a member of the lodge at Preston.

The parents of our subject were Nathaniel and Alice (Wyckoff) Weasmer, natives of New York State, and the father a carpenter and millwright by trade. After marriage they settled in Grand Gorge, N.Y., where the father erected several large mill buildings, and an extensive tannery, for one Col. Pratt. At his death the mother was left with ten children, five sons and five daughters. The paternal grandfather of our subject was John Wyckoff, a soldier in the War of 1812.

("Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson County, Iowa", originally published in 1889, by the Chapman Brothers, of Chicago, Illinois.)