Biographical Sketch of John Clay Weimer, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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John Clay Weimer, clerk of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Mo.,
was born in York County, Penn., April 20, 1834, and is the son of John
and Mary (Nesbit) Weimer, both natives of Pennsylvania.  The father was 
born in 1806, was reared on a farm, and later engaged in the furniture
business.  The mother was born in 1812, and died in 1884.  Our subject 
left his native State in 1859, for Illinois, and was variously employed
until January 15, 1862, when he enlisted at Chicago, Ill., in Company D
Ninth Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, for three years "or during the war."
He served under Gens. Curtis and Steele, in their campaigns, in 1862,
through Missouri and Arkansas, and in January, 1863, was detailed as
clerk at headquarters, Department of the Missouri, at St. Louis, Mo.,
where he remained as clerk until April, 1865.  He then went to Union,
Mo., the county seat of Franklin County, and on May 4, 1865 took a pos-
ition as deputy in the office of the circuit court clerk, and held the
same up to his election, as a Republican, to the office of circuit 
court clerk, in 1870.  He was also deputy collector of Franklin County,
Mo., during the years 1879 and 1880, and deputy county clerk during the
years 1881 and 1882.  He was again elected to the office of circuit
clerk in 1882, and re-elected to the same position in 1886, and holds
the same at the present time.  Mr. Weimer was married August 5, 1872,
to Miss Sallie E. Jeffries, a native of Franklin County, Mo., born
December 31, 1846.  She is the daughter of the late A. W. Jeffries,
who died in 1870, and who was an attorney at law.  He held office for a
number of years, and was one of the leading and substantial men in the
county of his day.

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