Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Weil, D. September 23 1853 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    D. WEIL, one of the representative business men of Greensboro, was born in
Bavaria, Germany, September 23, 1853. He is the son of Isaack and Regina Well,
both of whom were born in Bavaria, and lived and died in their native country.
The former was a merchant. D. Well received a fair education in Germany, and
came to this country in 1881. For some time he worked in a clothing house in New
York city. He then came to the southern states, and sold goods as a peddler in
Tennessee for some years. In 1887 he bought the general merchandising business
of A. B. Loveman, at Greensboro, where he has since resided and carried on the
mercantile business. During the first eighteen months he had a partner, but at
the end of that time he bought his partner's interest, and has since been alone.
His is one of the most important general merchandise stores in Greensboro.
Little by little he has gone on accumulating property, until now he is one of
the substantial citizens Of Hale county. In 1877 he married, in Germany, Miss
Leona Well, who bore him four sons, and died a short time after he located in
Greensboro. In 1885 he married, for a second wife, Miss Emelia Frank, who has
borne him one child. Mr. Weil is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias, of
the Free Sons of Israel, and is a master Mason. He is now past chancellor of his
lodge of Knights of Pythias.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1071-1072
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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