Weakley, Robert – Webb, John Russell
Weakley, Robert
congressman, was born July 20, 1764, in Halifax county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1809 to 1811; and in 1819 was appointed United States commissioner to treat with the Chickasaws. He died Feb. 4, 1845, in Nashville, Tenn.
Wear, Robert Duke
lawyer, poet, was born Feb. 26, 1854, in Verona, Miss.
He is a successful lawyer of Granbury, Tex.; and the author of a volume entitled Beauty, and Other Poems.
Weare, Meshech
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born June 16, 1713, in Hampton, N. H. He was elected to the New Hampshire legislature for several years, serving as speaker in 1752. In 1754 he was a commissioner to the colonial congress at Albany, and he was afterward a justice of the supreme court, and in 1777 became chief justice.
He died Jan. 15, 1786, in Hampton Falls, N. H.
Weathersby, Eliza
actress, was born in 1849 in England. She has attained a national reputation throughout the country as a noted actress. She died March 24, 1887, in New York city.
Weatherwax, Frank
elocutionist, orator, was born Nov. 21, 1863, in Corey, Mich. He received a thorough education in the district schools, and at the Northern Indiana Normal school of Valparaiso. He studied elocution and oratory under the best masters, and is now teacher of those arts in Detroit, Mich.
Weaver, Archibald J
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 15, 1844, in Susquehanna county, Pa. He is a noted lawyer of Falls City, Neb. In 1872 he was elected district attorney of the first judicial district. He was elected judge of the first judicial district in 1875, and was re-elected in 1879, holding the position until elected a representative from Nebraska to the forty-eighth congress. He was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.
Weaver, Charles Alexander
manufacturer, banker, was born April 14, 1845, in York, Pa. He is a successful manufacturer of Moundville, W. Va.; president of the Moundville Manufacturing company; president of the Moundville Land company; and president of the Marshall County bank.
Weaver, George Sumner
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 24, 1818, in Rockingham, Vt. He is a universalist clergyman; and the author of Lectures on Mental Science; Hopes and Helps for the Young; Aims and Aids for Girls; The Ways of Life; The Christian Household; The Open Way; Moses and Modern Science; The Heart of the Word; and Lives and Graves of Our Presidents. -
Weaver, James B
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 12, 1833, in Dayton, Ohio. He entered the union army in 1861 as a private, and rose to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier general.
He was elected district attorney of the second judicial district of Iowa in 1866; and was appointed assessor of internal revenue in 1867. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-sixth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth and fiftieth congresses. In 1890 he was the candidate of the national party for the presidency of the United States.
Weaver, John G
legislator, public official, was born Nov. 25, 1812, in Newport, R. I. In 1863-64 he was a representative in the Rhode Island state legislature; and was one of the first aldermen of Newport.
Weaver, John Riley
soldier, educator, diplomat, was born Oct. 21, 1839, in Youngstown, Pa. He received a thorough education in the Normal School academy, and the Allegheny college, from which latter institution he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M.; and in 1866 was given the degree of S. T. B. by the Garrett Biblical institute of Evanston, Ill. During the civil war he served in the union army as lieutenant in company G, eighteenth regiment Pennsylvania cavalry; was made a prisoner of war; was confined in Libby prison and other prisons for nearly two years; and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel of volunteers. In 1869-70 he was consul in Italy; in 1870- 79 consul at Antwerp, Belgium; and consul-general at Vienna, Austria, during 1879-86. He has been professor of mathematics and military science during 1866- 69 in the West Virginia university; and since 1885 has been professor of modern languages, history and political philosophy, and political science in the De Pauw university of Greencastle, Ind. He has written and lectured extensively on economic, political and social subjects; and is the author of Syllabuses on Constitutional History; Economics and Banking; Sociology and Its Applications; Socialism and Social Reform; and other works.
Weaver, Jonathan
bishop, author, was born Feb. 23, 1824, in Carroll county, Ohio. He is a clergyman of Ohio, bishop of the church of the United Brethren; and the author of Discourses on the Resurrection; Ministerial Salary; Divine Providence; and Universal Restoration not Sustained by the Word of God.
Weaver, Rufus B
physician, educator, was born Jan. 10, 1841, in Gettysburg, Pa. He is lecturer on surgical anatomy, and demonstrator of anatomy in Hahnemann Medical college of Philadelphia.
Weaver, Walter L
lawyer, congressman, was born April 1, 1851, in Montgomery county, Ohio. He was elected prosecuting attorney for Clarke county, Ohio, in 1874, and again elected to the same office in 1880, 1882, and 1885. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Weaver, Will J
journalist, poet, was born Dec. 24, 1856, in Mill Hall, Pa.
He was editor of The Normal Gazette; and the author of numerous poems.
Webb, Alexander Stewart
soldier, college president, author, was born Feb. 15, 1835, in New York city. He is president of the college of the city of New York from 1869, and during the civil war a general in the federal army. He is the author of The Peninsula; and Mc- Clellan's Campaign of 1862.
Webb, Charles
soldier, state legislator, was born Feb. 13, 1724, in Stamford, Conn. He was a member of the Connecticut legislature in 1758, and was rechosen twenty-three times. He died after 1794.
WEBB, CHARLES HENRY-John Paul -journalist, author, was born Jan. 24, 1834, in Rouse's Point, N. Y. He is a journalist now living at Nantucket very popular as a humorist in the earlier part of his career. He is the author of Liffith Lank; St. Twel'mo'; John Paul's Book; Parodies in Prose and Verse; and Vagrom Verse.
Webb, Mrs. Frances Isabel
[CARRIE], journalist, author, was born in 1857 in New Jersey. She was a magazinist of New York city; and the author of A Tiff with the Tiffins; Gala Day Books; and A Breath of Suspicion. She died in 1895.
Webb, George Franklin
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 8, 1818, near Liberty, Miss. In 1840 he was admitted to the bar, and practiced in the place of his nativity until the civil war, when he was commissioned as major commissary, which office he held until the close of the war. After the war he was elected to a seat in the Mississippi state legislature, and served two sessions. with distinction. He has frequently presided as circuit judge under special appointments; and has attained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers of Mississippi. For several years he was engaged in journalism; has given much attention to literary work; and is the author of numerous essays, addresses, and articles in current literature.
Webb, Henry Livingston
soldier, state legislator, was born Feb. 6, 1795, in Claverack, N. Y. He settled in southern Illinois in 1817, and was repeatedly a member of both houses of the legislature.
He was general of the Illinois militia.
He died Oct. 5, 1876, in Makanda, Ill.
Webb, James
lawyer, jurist, state senator, author, was born in 1792 in Georgia. He was judge of the superior court of Georgia. He was United States. district judge in the territory of Florida.
He resigned and moved to Texas in 1839; and was attorney-general of the state and secretary of state. He served one term in the senate; and after Texas became a state was reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the state; secretary of state, and judge of the fourteenth judicial district, which position he held at the time of his death. He was the author of Reports of the Supreme Court of Texas from 1846 to 1848. He died Nov. 1, 1856, in Goliad, Tex.
Webb, James Watson
soldier, journalist, author, was born Feb. 8, 1802, in Claverack, N. Y. He entered the army as second lieutenant in 1819; was made first lieutenant in 1823, and resigned in 1827 and took charge of the New York Courier, which was united to the Enquirer, under the name of Morning Courier and New York Enquirer. He became sole editor, and in 1830 sole proprietor. In 1861 he was minister to Brazil; while in this position secured the settlement of long-standing claims against Brazil, and was instrumental, through his intimacy with Napoleon III., in procuring the withdrawal of the French from Mexico. He was the author of Altowan, or Life in the Rocky Mountains; and Slavery and its Tendencies. He died June 7, 1884, in Claverack, N. Y.
Webb, John Russell
educator, author, was born Aug. 6, 1824, in Brown- Book; and Webb's Word Method, in which ville, N. Y. He published John's First he expounded his system of instruction; besides a series of readers embodying the method. He died Sept. 10, 1887, in Benton Harbor, Mich.