Early Life, Work and Education
Rudolph Weaver was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry Weaver and his wife, Sara Jane Barnhart. Before college he worked as a bookbinder, printer and steelworker. He attended Pennsylvania State College for the year 1902-1903 and then went to Drexel Institute where he received a diploma in architecture in 1905, He continued his study of architecture at Columbia University, 1906–1907 and at the atelier of Henry Hornbostel of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, 1907. He later received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Drexel in 1919.
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