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Note: !BIRTH: 10 OCT 1883 Urbana, Champaign, OH (See file Blue 2, pg 8 - Stafford Bible shows 1884). My father told me, the compiler, that his birth record was lost in a fire at the Urbana, Champaign County, OH Court- house. !PARENTS' FAMILY MRIN: #MRIN7 Albert Jason WEAVER RIN4/Mary Ellen STAFFORD RIN5 (Molly) !MARRIAGE: RIN3 to Marie Louise MCANERNEY RIN3 16 APR 1912 New York, New York County, New York by Father Martin at St. Patrick's Cathedral. !DEATH: 30 SEP 1953 Atlanta, Fulton GA (Pershing Point Hotel Apartment #707, 1428 Peachtree St. across the street from compiler's office at 1447 Peachtree St. N.E.). Compiler was at his bedside when he died. Copy of death certificate is in compiler's RIN2 folder. !BURIAL: OCT 1953 Atlanta, Fulton, GA. The Westview Cemetery, 1680 Gordon St. SW, Atlanta GA 30310 Lot 323, Sec.31. This lot has space for 4 graves. Rosetta Elizabeth BUTLER RIN68, compiler's first wife is buried there. This compiler expects that he and his second wife, Lovis Lee BRYANT (deceased and buried there) will occupy the other two sites. His mother, Marie Louise MCANERNEY RIN3, is buried in Fort Lauderdale FL in accordance with her wish. !RESIDENCES: Born in Urbana, Ohio. Entered in the first page of his mother's cookbook - "Buckeye Cookery, Buckeye Publishing Company, 1879 Minneapolis, Minn." was enscribed: "Mrs. A. Weaver, Kingman, Kansas, October 11, 1882". Postmark on card July 13, 1904 giving address: 246 West 22 St. New York, N.Y. (1912) 609 West 158 St. New York City - (abt 1914/15) Westfield, N.J. - (abt 1917) Hempstead, NY - (abt 1918) Broadway-Flushing, NY - (abt 1919)Auburndale, NY - (abt 1920) 139 Prospect Ave. Douglas Manor, Douglaston, NY - (abt 1935)12890 Howell Mill Rd NW, Atlanta, Ga. - (abt 1947) 1320 Ocean Drive, Harbor Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Fl. !MILITARY(1): 31 October 1902 enlisted as Private in Company B., National Guard, New York to serve five years. Honorably Discharged 17 December 1907. He reenlisted for one year 23 December 1907. Discharge was dated 26 January 1909. Original documents are in compiler's RIN2 file folder. He was later in the New Jersey National Guard Cavalry when residing in Westfield, NJ. Was given a hardship discharge at the time that his outfit was to be called to the Mexican border (1916?) since he was married with one (or two - compiler's brother, Marshall was born 31 March 1916) child. Compiler's has not yet (August 29, 1991) found documentation of this enlistment, but there is a picture of his father in uniform in his mother's album. !ORGANIZATION & CIVIC ACTIVITIES: Bayside (NY) Lodge 999, Masons, F&AM Knights Templar, Flushing, NY Ohio Society (NY) Summer Advertising Golf Association. NY Office of Price Administration (WW II) - Atlanta, Ga. North Hempstead Country Club, Port Washington, L.I. NY Capitol City Club, Atlanta, Ga. Also a golf club in Bayside LI, NY. (Bayshore Country Club?) !SOURCE: Mostly personal knowledge of compiler, his son, L. A. Weaver, Jr. 1TRAVELS: Mainly business travels in northeastern and southeastern states calling on advertisers and agencies. A few winter steamship cruises, i.e. SS VOLENDAM etc. !HOBBIES: Golf, Horseback Riding, Bowling !VOCATION: Harper's (publishing), 14th St.(?) NYC. Curtis Publising Co. (Advertising sales, Country Gentleman, Saturday Evening Post) Hearst Corporation - Eastern Advertising Manager, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Business Manager, HOUSE BEAUTIFUL Group Director, Stuyvesant Group - HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, HARPER'S BAZAAR, TOWN & COUNTRY, AMERICAN ARCHITECT Partner, Coggill & Weaver, Publishers' Rep., Atlanta, Ga. WEAVER Incorporated, Publishers' Rep., formed in Atlanta with son, L. A. Weaver, Jr. OBITUARY: The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, October 1, 1953 "L. A. Weaver, Publishing Leader, Dies Laurence Albert (Larry) Weaver, 70, prominent Atlantan and a founder of Weaver, Inc., publishers' representatives. died here Wednesday afternoon after a brief illness. A native of Urbana, Ohio, Mr. Weaver began his brilliant career in the Advertisiing deprtment of Harper & Brothers in 1900, later joining the New York space sales staff of the Curtis Publishing Company. He successively became eastern advertising manager of Good Housekeeping, business manager of House Beautiful, and director of group sales for Stuyvesant Publications, House Beautiful, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, and Americn Architect. HERE 15 YEARS Resigning a position with Hearst Magazines, Inc., Mr. Weaver came to Atlanta in 1938 and formed a partnership with H. F. (Buddy) Cogill. Their firm represented Printer's Ink and other Hearst publications. Subsequently, Mr. Weaver was an independent publisher's representative. At the end of World War II he was joined by his son, Laurence A. Weaver, Jr., and in 1948 founded the firm of Weaer, Inc., publishers' represenatives, with home office in Atlanta and a branch office in Tyler, Texas. Since his retirement a few years ago, Mr. Weaver had made his home at 1320 Ocean Drive, Harbor Beach. Fort Lauderdale, Fla. SERVED WITH OPA He was a member of Atlanta's Capital City Club, Lodge 999, F. & A. M., Bayside, N.Y.; Knights Templar, and a member of both the New Jersey and New York National Guards. A volunteer worker with OPA during the war, he was in charge of price panels, and the automobile rationing board. Funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Friday in Spring hill Chapel. The Rev. John F. McDonough will officiate. Surviving are his wife, Marie Louise; three sons, J. Marshall and Laurence A. Weaver, Jr., Atlanta; Frank Stafford Weaver, Louisville, Ky; and one grandchild."
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