BIO: WEIR, Andrew N., M.D., s/o Andrew & Nancy (Dinwiddie) Weir Submitted by: Diana Flynn WEIR, DINWIDDIE, MILLER, TAYLOR, POLLARD "HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884. SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA HAMILTON TWP. PAGE 740 ANDREW N. WEIR, M. D., was born in Salem, Washington Co., Ind., November 9, 1832, son of Andrew and Nancy (Dinwiddie) Weir, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of Kentucky. She died at Salem in 1839, and he at Warsaw, Ill., in 1874. They had seven children, Andrew N. being the youngest. Subject worked with his father in the tanning business until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to Warsaw, Ill., remaining there about three years; then returned and managed the business of his father two years, when he began the study of medicine, continuing the same till 1855, when he came to Sullivan and went into the office of J. H. Weir, and remained two years. In the winters of 1856 and 1857, he attended the Medical University of Louisville, Ky., when he returned and began the practice of his profession. In 1872, he took a course at the Indiana Medical College, graduating from that institution. He practeced at Graysville for twenty-five years, and in 1881, moved to Sullivan, started a drug store and opened an office. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary Miller, December 15,1859, at Warsaw, Ill., but who died August 1, 1860. He was married September 16, 1861, to Miss Lucy Jane Taylor, of East Cambridge, Mass., daughter of John and Susan (Pollard) Taylor, and to this union five children were born: Harvey Newton, Edward Andrew, Arthur Dinwiddie, Emily Taylor and Robert, deceased. He and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is an A. F. & A. M., Lodge 263, and an I. O. O. F., Lodge 147. In 1862, he went into the United States volunteer service as Captain of a company in the Seventy-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was afterward changed to cavalry, he still being Captain. In 1863, he was commissioned as Assistant Surgeon, and served till January, 1864, when he was promoted to Full Surgeon of his regiment, serving until the close of the war, when, his time for which he enlisted not having expired, he was placed in charge of a new regiment, but resigned and returned to the practice of his profession. The Doctor started in life without any financial assistance, but through his energy and ability has placed himself in the front of his profession, and acquired a competency. He spent the winters of 1878-79 in the Medical College of New York, attending lectures and increasing his acquirements. ************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent.