Henry A. Weaver

Henry Augustus Weaver (April 1, 1820 – September 26, 1890) was the Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1857 to 1860. He was a member of the Republican Party, and was the first Republican mayor of Pittsburgh.

Formative years Born in Freeport, Pennsylvania on April 1, 1820, Henry A. Weaver was one of the ten children of Benjamin Weaver. Educated in their community's public schools, Henry and his siblings relocated with their parents to Pittsburgh sometime around 1830, where his father launched a new business venture, the opening of the Mansion House at Fifth Avenue and Wood Street (later the site of the First National Bank). His father, who was politically active throughout Henry Weaver's youth, was a member of the Whig Party who was elected as sheriff of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in 1840.

Illness, death and interment Following a lengthy illness, Weaver died at the age of seventy at the St. James Hotel in Pittsburgh on September 26, 1890. Funeral services were held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church; he was then buried in the Allegheny Cemetery. He was preceded in death by all but one of his four children, Mrs. J. L. Marshall. His widow, Elizabeth, died in 1891.