George Weber was born on January 7, 1839, in Harmony, Pennsylvania. He grew up and attended school in Butler County.

 

He enlisted in the Union army on July 5, 1861, and he mustered in as a private in Company D of the 11^th Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry. The regiment took part in the Seven Days Battles, the Second Battle of Manassas, the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Overland Campaign.  

 

He was “severely wounded” at Mechanicsville in June 1862, and Confederates captured him soon afterward. He spent around forty days as a prisoner of war before being exchanged. He was wounded again at Fredericksburg in December 1862 and at Gettysburg in July 1863. He was promoted to sergeant in April 1863. Confederate forces captured him in the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864. According to an early biographer, he “remained a prisoner until February 1865. The hardships of prison life had broken his health. His term of service had long since expired, and he was honorably discharged.”

 

He settled in Valley Brook, Kansas, after the war, and he earned a living as a farmer. By 1870, he owned $1,000 of real estate and $220 of personal property. He married Margaret Dougherty on March 19, 1874, and they had at least three children: William, born around 1875; Stella, born around 1877; and Olivia, born around 1879. He applied for a federal pension in 1880 and eventually received one.

 

His wife died in 1884, and he married Amelia Grine on February 27, 1889. By 1900, he was serving as a justice of the peace. He died on May 15, 1917, in Lyndon, Kansas.

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