Anna Weber

Anna Weber (1814–1888) was a Canadian Mennonite Fraktur artist.

Life Weber was born June 3, 1814, in Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to a Mennonite family of Swiss descent. She was the fifth of ten children born to Johannes Weber and Catherine Gehman. This area, now known as Weaverland, is where Anna and her parents and grandparents were born and where Anna first attended parochial school. Her father, John Weaver, was ordained a deacon in the Weaverland Mennonite Church in 1820. Most of her work through the 1870s and 1880s were gifts for birthdays and special occasions. According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Weber was "the most original and prolific of Ontario's fraktur [sic] artists", which was particularly notable given the paucity of female Fraktur artists.