Background
George Weaver was born in 1872, the son of Lawrence and Lucy Elizabeth Weaver of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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George Augustus Weaver was his oldest child and graduated from Talladega College in 1892.
Career
His contributions to the education of black students led to a library being named in his honor in Tuscaloosa. He was the father of six children and sent all of them to college. George Weaver was the principal of a school for black students in Gadsden, Alabama for one year and then attended Howard University.
He graduated from Howard University with a medical degree in 1899 and interned at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Weaver returned to Tuscaloosa in 1900 and was a surgeon at Stillman Hospital, located on the campus of Stillman College. Doctor Weaver was most active in church, civic and fraternal affairs
His Fraternal affairs includes: Charter Member, 1st Worshipful Master, of Rescue Lodge #234, F & Department of Administration and Management Public Housing Administration in 1905, and Grand Senior Warden of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge F & Department of Administration and Management State of Alabama in 1906-1907. He was a Trustee and Deacon of the First African Baptist Church.
During this time he made his personal library available for black students to use in their studies.
In 1960 Mistress Ruth Bolden, the first librarian in for what is now the Weaver-Bolden Library Branch (part of the Tuscaloosa Public Library system), requested that the Library be named for Doctor Weaver to honor his contribution to young people and his generosity with his own books to the students of the area (Kampis).
