TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - BIO: WEISS, Walter S. M.D. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 250, 251

        WALTER S. WEISS, M.D. Few men in the medical profession give such
rich and varied service to the public welfare as Dr. Walter S. Weiss of
Jefferson, present health commissioner of Ashtabula County, and who in
addition to performing the routine work of a doctor for thirty-five years
has been influentially identified with the educational, civic and general
welfare of his community.
        Doctor Weiss was born in Champion Township, near Warren, in
Trumbull County, Ohio, March 6, 1864. He is of Colonial ancestry, the Weiss
family having come from Virginia to Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Abram
Weiss, was a native of Ohio, and spent his career as a farmer in Champion
Township of Trumbull County and in Austintown, Mahoning County. Amos Weiss,
father of Doctor Weiss, was born January 29, 1826, at Austintown, but after
the age of ten years lived in Champion Township of Trumbull County, where
he married and where he devoted his life to farming. He died in Champion
Township in August, 1906, when eighty years of age. He became a republican
after the formation of that party, and was a leader in the affairs of his
community, holding several township offices. He was a member of the Church
of the Disciples. Amos Weiss married Hannah Price, who was born at
Youngstown, March 14, 1830, and died at her home in Champion Township in
April, 1906. They were the parents of six children: John and Charles, both
of whom died in childhood;; Salome, who died at Southington, Trumbull
County, wife of Wallace Brunson, a farmer who also died there; Dr. Walter
S.; Nellie, wife of Charles Gaylord, a traveling salesman living at Los
Angeles, California, and Mary, of Warren, widow of Ira Hatch.
        Dr. Walter S. Weiss attended public schools in Champion Township,
spent three years as a student in Hiram College in Portage County, and one
year in Ohio State University at Columbus. His professional studies were
pursued in Western Reserve University at Cleveland, where he was graduated
Doctor of Medicine in the class of '88. Doctor Weiss has repeatedly gone to
larger centers to keep in touch with the progress in medicine and surgery,
and twice has pursued post-graduate work in Chicago clinics. He began his
regular practice at Cortland, Ohio, in 1888, but two years later
established his home at Rock Creek, in Ashtabula county. Doctor Weiss was a
competent physician of that community for a period of twenty-eight years.
During the World war he became a medical member of the Ashtabula County
Draft Board. The duties of his position required so much of his time that
he moved from Rock Creek to Jefferson in 1918, and has remained in the
county seat, engaged in a general medical and surgical practice and
attending the various official duties. In 1922 he was elected county health
commissioner, and has given most of his time to that office since August 1,
1922.
        Doctor Weiss was president of the school board of Rock Creek for
twenty-five years, that length of service constituting perhaps a record. He
had been in Jefferson only six months when he was appointed a member of the
Board of Education, and in 1921 was elected as president, an office he
fills today. For the past six years he has been president of the Ashtabula
County Board of Education, and became a member of that organization when it
was instituted nine years ago. Thus officially and through his industry and
zeal he has conferred many signal benefits on the educational program of
his county. For seven years he held the office of mayor of Rock Creek, and
for several terms was on the Town Council and served one term on the City
Council of Jefferson, resigning when elected county health commissioner.
Doctor Weiss is a republican, is a member of the First Congregational
Church of Jefferson, is a past master of Rock Creek Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, past high priest of Grand River Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, at Rock Creek, and is now a member of Jefferson Chapter No. 141; a
member of Conneaut Council No. 40, Royal and Select Masters, at Conneaut,
and the Commandery at Conneaut, Ohio, and belongs to the Jefferson Chamber
of Commerce, the Ashtabula County, Ohio State and American medical
associations. He owns two residences, one occupied by his family on West
Jefferson Street in Jefferson, and another at Rock Creek.
        August 19, 1850, at Cortland, Ohio, Doctor Weiss married Miss Alice
Anderson, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Anderson, now deceased. Her
father was a farmer in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Doctor Weiss lost his
wife by death on June 18, 1920. Four children survive. Helen E is the wife
of Walter Bender, an employe of the General Fire Proofing Company at
Youngstown, Ohio. Mildred E. is her father's housekeeper. Agnes N. married
W. Clinton Burnett, a rancher and cattle buyer at Lewistown, Montana.
Walter A. is a student in the Jefferson High School.


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