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.