Hamilcar Weller

Hamilcar "Hammy" Weller was a Usonian industrial magnate and a major North American partner of the German Zeppelin Company. He was born on the Usonian frontier in Omaha, Nebraska just two years after the town was incorporated and made his career in Chicago. He died in 1924, increasingly distraught after his son Hannibal's disappearance in late 1921.

Early Life
Hamilcar's father, Theodore Morris Weller, was a veteran of the Usonian-Mexican Wars and died in early 1863 fighting in the Deseret Incident, leaving Hamilcar and his mother Martha Weller alone.

Martha and Hamilcar remained in Omaha for a time, but soon relocated to Chicago where Martha had family. Hamilcar generally performed well in school and was offered a scholarship at the University of Chicago, which he entered in 1881. Graduating with a business degree, Hamilcar entered the growing administrative and corporate world of Usonian industrialism.

Business Ventures
In 1886, the then 23 year old Hamilcar published a letter in the Chicago Tribune defending the murderous actions of the Chicago Police Department during the Haymarket Affair.

In 1891 Hamilcar met a contingent of Germans at the World's Columbian Exhibition, including his future wife Countess Theresa von Hindenburg and her brother Ferdinand. The two men hit it off immediately, and by the turn of the century the partnership between the Weller Corporation and the Hindenburg Company had a virtual monopoly on air travel between Europe and the Americas.

Throughout his life, Hamilcar became one of the largest property owners within the city of Chicago and one of the wealthiest Usonians in history. In 1912

Family Life
By 1893 Theresa and Hamilcar were married and had a son, Hannibal. They would go on to have two more children, the twins Adelaide and Lilliana, in 1896