NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: WEEMS, Capell L. *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tina Hursh frog158@juno.com November 4, 1999 *********************************************************************** >From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html CAPELL L. WEEMS is an able young lawyer, who is fast earning for himself an honored place in the ranks of the profession. He was born at Whigville, Marion Township, July 7, 1860. He attended the common and normal schools until the age of sixteen, when he began teaching school, and taught with occasional interruptions until he began the practice of law. He studied law under the tuition of Dalzell & McGinnis, beginning at the age of nineteen, and was admitted to the bar in October, 1881. He then took a position as superintendent of schools at Senecaville, Guernsey County, where he remained until 1883. In the spring of that year he settled in Caldwell, and entered upon the practice in partnership with James M. McGinnis, Esq. Mr. Weems was elected prosecuting attorney in 1884, and has ably discharged the duties of that position. In November, 1883, he was married to Mary B. Nay. History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887 The Legal Profession Transcribed by Deb Murray