Husband Hon. George Torrence Weingartner 1 2
Born: 4 Aug 1875 - Slippery Rock Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 1
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Father: George Adam Weingartner (1836-1885) 1 2
Mother: Martha Warnock (1837-1914) 1 2
Marriage: 1901 1 2
• Additional Image: George T. Weingartner.
Wife Anna Hazen 1 2
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Father: Eli Warnock Hazen (1838-1908) 3
Mother: Margaret E. "Maggie" Mitchell ( - ) 4
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1 F Martha M. Weingartner 1 2
Born: 20 Feb 1902 1
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2 F Elizabeth Weingartner 1 2
Born: 4 Dec 1907 1
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3 M Robert Aiken Weingartner 5
Born: 1910 5
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4 M Helen R. Weingartner 5
Born: 1912 5
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. George Torrence Weingartner
He attended the district schools until he was seventeen years of age and then entered the Rose Point Academy, in Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1896. In the meanwhile he had been teaching school for four years. In the fall of 1897 he entered the law office of Robert K. Aiken, Esq., as a student, and continued there until he was prepared for the bar, being admitted to practice on March 15, 1899. He won a prominent position in his profession and also became a leading politician of Lawrence County. In 1904 he was first elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, served through the regular session of 1905 and the extra session of 1906. He was re-elected in 1906 and served through the regular session of 1907. His party then selected him as their standard bearer from the Forty-seventh District for the State Senate. In addition to Mr. Weingartner's professional and political activities he was also largely interested in real estate and building operations in the east side district of New Castle.
He was educated in the local public schools and the Rose Point Academy, and then studied law in the office of Mr. Robert K. Aiken, and was admitted to the bar on March 15, 1899. He then began the practice of his profession in New Castle, under his own name and from the beginning met with unusual success. But he also became interested in real estate development in the city of New Castle. In 1922, he organized the Weingartner Realty Company, which built hundreds of houses, mostly in East New Castle, and sold them to purchasers on small payments down. Through Mr. Weingartner's efforts along this line many people were enabled to become owners of their own homes who otherwise would have been unable to do so. He also took a whole-hearted interest in politics as a Republican. He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Lawrence County, in 1904, reelected in 1906, and elected to the Senate of Pennsylvania in 1908, representative of the 47th District; composed of the counties of Beaver and Lawrence, and during each session he served on the Committee of Judiciary General, Municipal Corporation, and other important committees. He was a great admirer of Theodore Roosevelt, and was a delegate to the Progressive Convention in Chicago, in 1912, that nominated Roosevelt for President, on the Progressive ticket. In 1919, the county of Lawrence contemplated an extensive program of road building. There was a strong demand by the progressive citizens of the county for a candidate for County Commissioner, who had the business ability to carry out that program, Mr. Weingartner was finally selected as the man to do this work. He became a candidate and was elected County Commissioner in 1919, and re-elected to an additional four year term in 1923. During his term of office many reforms were instituted and new business methods applied to the operation of the office, and largely through his efforts and ability a fine system of permanent public highways was built and many new bridges, among which may be mentioned the Jefferson Street Bridge, in New Castle, and the Gardner Avenue Viaduct, the whole costing almost three-fourths of a million dollars and being admittedly the greatest improvement in this line ever built in Lawrence County.
In 1924, he became a candidate and was elected to the Senate.
During the World War he was an earnest steady worker in all war activities. He was one of New Castle's "four-minute" speakers, and was chairman of the Victory Liberty Loan committee. He threw himself into the contest to "make the world safe for Democracy" with an energy that elicited a letter of unstinted praise from the United States Government. He was a member of the County and State Bar associations, and was senior member of the law firm of Weingartner & Mercer, engaged in general practice. In addition to being president of the Weingartner Realty Company, he was a director and vice-president of the New Castle Mining & Clay Products Company, brick manufacturers. He was a director of the Citizens Lumber Company; director of the Blair Strip Steel Company, all of New Castle; and a director of the Banner-Mahoning Furnace Company, of Youngstown, Ohio.
Mr. Weingartner belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was chairman of the board of trustees of the church which he attended and also first assistant superintendent of the Sunday School. He was a delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1920. Mr. Weingartner was a member of the following organizations: Board of Trade, of which he was a director, and was president for one year; and New Castle Field Club.
General Notes: Wife - Anna Hazen
from Lawrence Co, PA