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The family first settled in a place called Randallstown, in Baltimore county. Father Andreas (the "Jakob" was dropped when he emigrated) and his 16 year old son John worked on a farm. Click here and scroll down for a modern map of the area. Andrew Weimar began to work at a weaving mill as a very young boy... 5 years old, the family tradition has it. Another gap in time, and we find Andrew in Philadelphia as a young man in his twenties, obviously very creative and successful despite his having had no formal schooling at all. He had attained the position of forman at the Krout and Fite mill by the time he was 24. Working in the mill was a little lady named Emma Latt, still in her teens. She had stopped school after eighth grade in order to help bring in money for the family. She loved the rhythmic sound of the looms..."like music", she said. One day there was an entertainment for all of the employees. Emma entered the hall, walked straight to the front row and sat down beside Andrew, the forman. They were married in 1889 when she was 19. He never stopped teasing her about her boldness in seating herself beside her boss. Andrew received his first patent in 1894 for the invention of a "shuttle-operating mechanism for narrow-ware looms". His creativity continued through his long career with patent after patent. Many involved complex mathematics; later his son-in-law Ed Fredericks concluded that Andrew had essentially figured out calculus for himself! |
