• Parents are Henry Weber and Caroline Donistriech.122

• Otto Weber and Emma Weber are siblings.154

• Alfred Kiefer, who was one of the principal promoters of the company [The Port Huron Sulphite and Paper Company] and its treasurer, then suggested a reorganization. The main stockholders…invested some more money and put the mill in charge of a young college graduate, O. L. E. Weber, who admittedly knew nothing of the business. Weber spent six weeks visiting other mills and noting their methods, then came back, made some changes and started up. He made such a success of the business that it soon was paying 6% dividends on its share capital. This it continued to do through the “gay nineties” but the going became increasingly difficult in the early years of this century.
In 1910, the paper mill was started as a separate company composed of Frank Haynes, who became its president, O. L. E. Weber, E. W. Kiefer and John Daley, its first superintendent.155, pp 109-110

• I was able to locate an obituary for Otto which was difficult as he died overseas, but I found it!129, p 1

• Otto’s funeral was held in Detroit, Michigan. I suggest you contact a historical society or researcher in Detroit and see if they can find Otto’s gravestone and see if Bertha is buried with him.129, p 2

• O. L. E. Weber, general manager of the Watab Paper company at Sartell from 1915 to 1935, died suddenly in Rome on Memorial day, May 31 [sic]. Mr. and Mrs. Weber sailed from New York on May 6 for a three months visit in Europe.
Mr. Weber was 71 years old, born in Michigan on March 14, 1867. He was educated in the schools of Michigan taking his degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1893.
For a time he was with his father in the furniture business, and later became general manager of the Port Huron Sulphite and Paper company, Port Huron, Michigan, a position which Mr. Weber’s nephew Edward Kiefer now holds. From there he went to the Forest Products Laboratories in Madison, Wisconsin, and in 1915 came to St. Cloud.
Numbered among the directors of the Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industry, Mr. Weber was recognized as a leader in his field.
Mrs. Weber survives. A nephew, Edward Henkel, and a niece, Mrs. Louis Wurzer, live in Detroit, Michigan. Francis and Edward Kiefer are nephews living in Port Huron.
No information has been received as to Mrs. Weber’s plans for the funeral.129, p 3

• Word has been received that the body of O. L. E. Weber, who died Memorial Day in Rome, will arrive in New York on June 16. The funeral will be in Detroit, Mich., on June 18.129, p 3

• Notification sent to Edward Henkel, 1068 Berkshire Road, Detroit, Mich., Nephew, by Mrs. Weber by telegraph on 30 May 1938.151

• [excerpt] Funeral services for O. L. E. Weber, who died suddenly in Rome, Italy, May 30, while on a European tour with his wife, will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at the Charles H. Curtiss Chapel, 8045 Jefferson avenue east. Burial will be in the family lot in Elmwood Cemetery.
Besides his widow, Bertha Goodier Weber, formerly of Port Huron, he leaves a niece, Mrs. Louis C. Wurzer, of Detroit, and Edgar W. and Francis Keifer, of Port Huron.156

• [excerpt] Services for Mr. Weber, native Detroiter, who died May 30 in Rome while on a European tour with his wife, will be held at 2 p. m. Monday.
Mr. Weber was the son of the late Henry Weber, who two generations ago operated one of the largest furniture factories in the Middle West. The salesrooms occupied an entire building adjoining the Majestic Building on Woodward Ave. and the factory occupied a square block on High St., just east of Woodward Ave. The family home also was on High St., where O. L. E. Weber was born 71 years ago.
He attended Detroit private schools and the Orchard Lake Military Academy, and was graduated in 1893 from the Engineering Department of the University of Michigan. A few years later he became manager and a director of the Michigan Sulphite Fiber Co., Port Huron, where he remained until 1913.
For the next two years he carried on experimental research in paper-making at the University of Wisconsin, and later became manager and director of the Watab Paper Co., Sartell, Minn. He retired a few years ago and had since made his home in St. Cloud, Minn.
He leaves his wife, Bertha Goodier Weber, formerly of Port Huron, and two nephews, Edgar W. Kiefer and Francis Kiefer, of Port Huron.157

• I received your email requesting information on Otto Louis Edgar Weber. I have searched our archived files for 1938 and unable to locate anything under that name. I have also checked under the name Henkel with no results.158

• 1870 Census: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Age 3, b MI.159
• 1900 Census: Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 32, b MI. Single. Lodger. Parents b Germany.160
• 1910 Census: Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 43, b MI. Manager; [unclear] Works. Parents b Germany.135
• 1920 Census: St. Cloud, Stearns, Minnesota. Age 52, b MI. Paper Maker; [unclear] Paper Co. Parents b Germany.136
• 1930 Census: St. Cloud, Stearns, Minnesota. Age 60, b MI. Parents b Germany.137

• Port Huron Directory, 1902
Weber O L E, mgr M S F Co, rms 919 Sixth304

• I was able to find Otto and Bertha living in St. Cloud in the city directories from 1916-1940. Bertha, listed as Martha, is widow in 1940-41 directory.129, p 1 & p 4