1889: Trade house Godeffroy, fails; but Weber had purchased seventy-five thousand acres, in Upolu, Samoa

From the standpoint of Samoa, Weber’s greatest work was his persistent acquisition, on behalf of the firm which he represented, of tracts of land which at the time of his surrendering the management at Apia in 1888 and his death the following year at Hamburg at the age of fifty-two, amounted to seventy-five thousand acres, [...]