GEORGE WEBER
George Weber, landlord and proprietor of the Farmer's Hotel, in Atlantic, purchased his house of Hensen and Dierkson, in December, 1882. The building was erected by a man named Goodale, for a grocery store, and was first opened as a hotel by Hensen and Dierkson, in March, 1875. The main building is of brick, and its dimensions are twenty-two by forty feet. It has a frame addition on the west, forty by sixteen feet, and another upon the north, forty by fourteen feet. The house contains accommodations for lodging about forty guests. He has almost the entire patronage of the farmers in this vicinity, and averages daily about sixty guests for dinner, frequently feeding as many as two hundred at that meal. Mr. Weber was born and reared in Stephenson county, Illinois. His parents were natives of Germany. His father, Jacob Weber, died in Illinois. His mother is still living in Stephenson county, at the advanced age of seventy-seven years. George Weber came to Atlantic in 1874, and purchased a farm in Union township, which he still owns, and on which he resided until he engaged in his present business. He was married to Lydia Ann Lang, a native of Stephenson county, Illinois. They have five daughters.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 884.
