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IN GENERAL. SKETCH OF THE DECEASED. Theodore B. Weber was born in Alsenz, Rhenish Bavaria, Germany, April 29, 1825. He had 2 good elementary school education, and attended a high school for several years. He came to this country alone, when 16 years old, without any means to speak of. IIe settled first at St. Louis, and remained there until 1846. During this period he was engaged as clerk in the mercantile business. When the Mexican war broke out be enlisted as a private in a St. Louis volunteer company, took part in several engagements, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. After his return to St. Louis from Mexico he carried on the business of a clothier and merchant .tailor in that city with his" then partner. Mr. Ballance, under the firm name of Ballance & Weber. The partnership continued until about 1851 or 1852, when he removed to Burlington, Ia., aud established himself there in the same business. In 1854 he formed a partnership with his brother, George W. Weber. and opened a wholesale boot and shoe house in Burlington, in which business he continued, under the firm name of T. B. Weber & Co., until 1862, when, with bis brother, he removed to Chicago, where they established themselves in the same business. Theodore changing his relations to the firm a few years since from я general to a special partner. When the German National Bank organized, under the management of Henry Greenebaum, Mr. Weber was transacting his financial business with Mr. Coolbaugh, who had become his personal friend during his residence in Burlington. Being always ready and anxious to advance German-American institutions, and having full confidence In the integrity and business capacity of Mr. Greenebaum, Mr. Weber invested as a stockholder in the German National and German Savings Banks to the amount of $30,000. With what sort of success this investment was rewarded is already known. Mr. Weber's integrity as a merchant was beyond question or cavil. He passed the ordeal of several commercial Danies, and in the Chicago fire his loss was very heavy indeed, including not only his stock in trade but also his homestead. In spite of all this, he scorned to make any settlement for less than the full amount of his indebtedness, paying his creditors 100 cents on the dollar. His commercial reputation, therefore, and his standing as a merchant, not only at home .but wherever his business connections extended, was always of the highest possible standard. Mr. Weber was a great reader, and was always striving to inform himself as well on the subject of politics as literature. He was considerable of-a student in his quiet, unostentations wav, and 8 very agreeable and interesting converser. His good nature, kindness of heart, and generosity towards those who were near and of kin to him were the most prominent features of his character; and he was regarded by all who knew him, and especially in German-American circles, in which he chiefly moved, as a genial, kind-hearted, and cultured gentleman. Had it not been for the appearance on the torizon of Mrs. Robert, and the events of the last year or two,-the failure of the German National and the German Savings, with the animosities stirred up in consequence thereof,-culminating as they did in his tragic taking off, it might indeed be said that be had passed through life without making an enemy, his conduct being " void of offense to all men."