Weems, Mason Locke
clergyman, author, was born about 1760 in Dumfries, Va. He was an episcopal clergyman, famous as a book agent in his day, but at one time rector of Pohick church, Mount Vernon, where Washington attended. His Life of Washington, which as early as 1811 had reached an eleventh edition, is still the most popular life of its subject, as from some points of view it is the most entertaining. He wrote also Lives of Marion, Penn, and Franklin. He died May 23, 1825, in Beaufort, S. C.
WEIDENMEYER, JOHN WILLIAM.
He was a writer of New York city; and the author of Catalogue of North American Butterflies; Real and Ideal, a volume Themes and Translations; of verse; American Fish and How to Catch Them; and From Alpha to Omega. He died in 1896.
WEIDNER, REVERE FRANKLIN, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 22, 1851, in Centre Valley, Pa. He is a lutheran clergyman, professor of systematic theology at Augustana seminary, Rock Island, in 1885-91, and subsequently at the Lutheran seminary of Chicago. He is the author of Commentary on Mark; Exegetical Theology; Historical Theology; System of Dogmatic Theology; Grammar of New Testament Greek; Commentary on the Hebrew Text of Obadiah; and Method for Study of New Testament Greek.
WEIGHTMAN, RICHARD HANSON, soldier, congressman, was born in 1818, in Maryland. He was a captain in the Missouri battalion of light artillery volunteers in the Mexican war and distinguished himself under Colonel Donophan in the battle of Sacramento; and subsequently held the position of additional paymaster. He was a delegate to congress from New Mexico from 1851 to 1853. He died Aug. 10, 1861, near Wilson's Creek, Mo.