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G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver

1818–1908

A 19th-century Universalist minister turned prolific writer, he produced practical advice books alongside popular histories aimed at everyday readers. His work ranges from guidance for young women to volumes on American presidents and religious themes.

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Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.

by G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver

About the author

George Sumner Weaver was an American author and Universalist clergyman who lived from 1818 to 1908. Library and catalog records identify him as the writer of works including Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women, The Lives and Graves of Our Presidents, and Heaven.

Available records also describe him as a minister in the Universalist Church, and one obituary source says he was educated for the law before leaving that field for the ministry. His writing reflects that mix of moral instruction, religious interest, and popular history, with books meant for a broad general audience rather than a narrow scholarly one.

Because the surviving online sources are mostly library catalogs, scans, and archival records, only a limited biographical sketch can be confirmed with confidence. Even so, those records show a long-lived 19th-century writer whose books were widely preserved and continue to circulate in digital libraries.