WEIR

T. M. WEIR, coal dealer and miner, was born in Washington County, Penn.,
March 2, 1814. He began the boot and shoe business at the age of
eighteen; fourteen years later, he opened up a farm in Henry County,
Ill., and lived on the same for forty years. He came to Kansas in 1871,
and located at Weir City, where he took up 160 acres of coal land. He
sold eighty acres, and now owns forty acres of fine coal land, having
built Weir City on the other forty acres. He opened mines as soon as he
arrived here; he owns and runs a farm of eighty acres; he had the first
 store in Weir City; had the post office located here, and was in short
the founder of the town; he owns seven houses, built by himself; he gave
right-of-way to the railroad; he donated lots for the various churches
of the town. He was married to Miss Levina Whitmoore, of Ohio, in 1835.
They have eight children- Elizabeth B., Coodie, Andrew J., Sarah A.,
Harvey P., Alice M., Ben, Susie and Edward (deceased).

Source: Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, 1883
Contributed by: Susie Martin-Rott
rootbound2@geocities.com


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