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Weeks, William Raymond – Weisse, John Adam

Weeks, William Raymond

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 6, 1783, in Brooklyn, Conn. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Newark, N. J.; and the author of Nine Sermons; Pilgrim's Progress in the Nineteenth Century; and Scripture Catechism. He died June 27, 1848, in Oneida, N. Y.

Weems, John. C

congressman, was born in Calvert county, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1826 to 1829.

Weightman, Roger C

librarian, was born in 1786 in Alexandria, Va. He was mayor of Washington in 1824-27; became cashier of the Washington bank, and was for many years librarian of the patent office. He died Feb. 2, 1876, in Washington, D. C.

Weir, James

lawyer, banker, author, was born June 16, 1821, in Greenville, Ky.

He has been a lawyer for forty years, and a banker for thirty years. He is the president of the Owensboro and Nashville railroad; and president of the Deposit bank of Owensboro, Ky. He is the author of three novels entitled Long Powers, or the Regulators; Simon Kenton; and Winter Lodge.

Weir, John Ferguson

educator, artist, author, was born Aug. 28, 1841, in West Point, N. Y. He is director of the school of Fine Arts at Yale university from 1869, and professor of painting and design there. He is the author of The Way: the Nature and Means of Revelation.

Weir, Joseph Latimer

poet, was born Jan. 24, 1821, in White House, Tenn.

His poems have received extensive publication in the periodical press of the south.

Weir, Julian Alden

artist, was born Aug. 30, 1852, in West Point, N. Y.

Among his works are A Brittany Interior; Brittany Peasant-Girl; Study of an Old Peasant; Breton Interior; The Muse of Music; Jenne Fille; and The Good Samaritan.

Weir, Robert Walter

artist, was born June 18, 1803, in New Rochelle, N. Y.

Among his well known paintings is The Embarkment of the Pilgrims in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington. He died May 1, 1889, in New York city.

Weiss, George Michael

clergyman, author, was born in 1697 in Germany. From about 1746 until his death he preached in Old Gosenhoppen and Great Swamp, Pa. He published An Account and Instruction relating to the Colony and Church of Pennsylvania, made up by the Deputies of the Synod of South Holland; a pamphlet concerning his arrangements with the classis of Amsterdam to care for the Germans in Pennsylvania; and an Account of the Indians. He died in 1762 in Philadelphia, Pa.

Weiss, John

clergyman, author, was born June 28, 1818, in Boston, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of very radical views who was pastor at Watertown, Mass., and was prominent as an abolitionist. He was the author of Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare; American Religion; The Immortal Life; and Life of Theodore Parker. He died March 9, 1879, in Boston, Mass.

Weisse, Faneuil Dunkin

physician, author, was born Aug. 27, 1842, in Roxbury, Mass. In 1879 he took charge of the dissecting room of the University Medical college, which position he still holds. He is the author of a work entitled Practical Human Anatomy.

Weisse, John Adam

philologist, author, was born Dec. 3, 1810, in France.

He was a philologist, born in Lorraine, who came to America in 1840, and ten years later settled in New York city, where he was president of the New York Philological society. He was the author of Key to the French Language; Origin, Progress, and Destiny of the English Language and Literature; and The Obelisk and Freemasonry. He died Jan. 12, 1888, in New York city.