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L. L. WEAVER
Everyone
who travels the great highway between Los Angeles and British Columbia knows of
the Yreka Inn, which is recognized as the leading public house of entertainment
in this part of the state, and, under the able management of L. L. Weaver, is
making great strides in popularity. Mr.
Weaver was born in the state of Pennsylvania April 5, 1872, and of that state
his parents were also natives. They both
died in Nebraska, April 6, 1929. L. L.
Weaver received his educational training in the grade schools of Nebraska and
then engaged in the grocery business at Shelton, that state. Subsequently he sold that store and began
general merchandising, which he carried on until 1905, when he sold out and
entered the lumber business at Shelton and Gibbons, Nebraska, later adding
other yards as the business progressed.
During these years he had as his partner his brother W. J., who is a
native of Nebraska, but now lives in Hollywood, California, and does not take
an active part in directing of the business. In 1921 Mr. Weaver moved to Long
Beach, California, where he lived until 1923, when he went to Albany, Oregon,
and took over the Albany Hotel. In 1924
he and his brother sold that property and in that year came to Yreka and built
what is now known as the Yreka Inn, containing one hundred and two rooms, an
imposing structure of concrete, around which are lawns, shrubbery and
driveways. The prices at the Yreka Inn
are reasonable and the rooms are well filled throughout the year by tourist and
commercial travelers. The Inn is
headquarters for the meetings of various Rotary clubs of this section of the
state, as well as banquets and meetings of other organizations, and is
admirably adapted to these functions, the hotel service being complete in every
respect, while every courtesy is afforded visitors.
On
February 17, 1896, Mr. Weaver was united in marriage to Miss Lulu M. Guffey, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver P. Guffey.
The father was originally from Missouri, but eventually became a
stockman in Nebraska, in which state his death occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver are the parents of two
children, Lawrence M., who married Miss Althea Howard, and is a clerk in his
father’s hotel, and Pauline, the wife of M. H. Lee, a livestock rancher in
Nebraska. Mr. Weaver gives his support
to the republican party, but has never been an office
seeker. He is a member of the Ancient
and Free Accepted Masons at Kenesaw, Nebraska, the Ancient Accepted Scottish
Rite at Hastings, Nebraska, and the nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Sacramento, California. He is very fond of travel and has visited
many parts of the country. Of genial
manner, he possesses the faculty of making people feel at home in the Inn, and
is exceedingly popular with the traveling public, while among his personal
associates he is very highly esteemed.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 198-199. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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