Bio of WEIL, Jonas (b.1874), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 229-230
JONAS WEIL
Jonas Weil, who has been a prominent representative of the legal profession in
Minneapolis during the past quarter of a century, is widely recognized as one of
the city's esteemed and influential residents. His birth occurred in Chicago,
Illinois, on the 9th of December, 1874, his parents being Isaac and Hannah
(Bachrach) Weil, the former a native of Bohemia and the latter of Bavaria,
Germany. Isaac Weil, whose natal year was 1847, emigrated to the United States
in 1866, when a young man of nineteen, and lived in New York and in Chicago
prior to coming to Minneapolis in 1879. Here he has remained to the present time
and has become widely and favorably known. It was in 1873 that he wedded Hannah
Bachrach, who was born in 1857 and was brought to America as a child of three
years. She passed away in November, 1905.
Jonas Weil acquired his education in the public schools of Minneapolis, passing
through consecutive grades and through the high school, and began preparation
for a professional career as a student in the University of Minnesota, from
which institu­tion he was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1898. Through
the intervening period to the present he has been a practicing attorney of this
city and has built up a clientage of extensive and gratifying proportions. His
fidelity to the interests of his clients is proverbial, yet he never forgets
that he owes a higher allegiance to the majesty of the law. His diligence and
energy in the preparation of his cases, as well as the earnestness, tenacity and
courage with which he defends the right, as he under­stands it, challenge the
highest admiration of his associates. Mr. Weil is a member of the Minneapolis
Bar Association, the Hennepin County Bar Association, the Min­nesota State Bar
Association, the Commercial Law League of America and the Amer­ican Bar
Association. During the period of the World war he served as chairman of the
committee of both the Hennepin County Bar Association and the Minneapolis Bar
Association to furnish legal aid to men in service, as well as to their
families. He is likewise director of the Minneapolis Chapter of the American Red
Cross.
On the 15th of February, 1905, in Minneapolis, Mr. Weil was united in marriage
to Miss Caroline Sicher, daughter of Henry Sicher, and they have become parents
of three children, namely: Hanford Sicher, who is seventeen years of age;
Charlotte Rose, who is fourteen years of age; and Miriam Adele, a maiden of ten
summers.
In his political views Mr. Weil is a republican, while in religion he holds to
the faith of his fathers. He is president of the board of trustees of Temple
Israel in Minneapolis and a member of the board of civil rights of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations. His appreciation for the social amenities of life
is indicated by his membership in the Minneapolis Athletic Club, the Oak Ridge
Country Club and the Lincoln Club, while fraternally he is identified with the
Masons, the National Union, the Royal League and the Independent Order of B'nai
B'rith. In the last named organ­ization he has served as president of
Minneapolis Lodge, was president of the District Grand Lodge in 1909 and 1910
and is a member of the Constitutional Grand Lodge. Mr. Weil has lived in
Minneapolis from early boyhood and his course has ever been such as to commend
him to the confidence and high regard of all with whom he has come into contact.