TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: WEAVER, Cletus (published1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume V, page 380-181

        CLETUS WEAVER attained to membership at the Ohio bar more than
thirty years ago, but much of his time was taken up with newspaper business
and other affairs until the last decade,during which he has been one of the
busy attorneys in practice at Dover. Mr. Weaver was born in Tuscarawas
County, on a farm, April 26, 1868, son of Jacob and Elizabeth
(Cherryholmes) Weaver. His father, a native of Pennsylvania, early in life
settled in Tuscarawas county, and volunteered and served as a Union soldier
in the Civil war. After the war he divided his time between farming and the
carpenter's trade. His first wife died, leaving him three young children,
and he subsequently married Anna Meyer, and of their children three grew to
mature years. He brought up his family on a farm, and proved most worthy in
all the relationships of life. He held several township offices, was a
republican and reached the age of sixty-eight.
        In boyhood and early manhood Cletus Weaver experienced much of the
toil of the farm. He attended the short winter terms in the country
schools, and there gained recognition for his apt scholarship and
diligence. When still in his teens he secured a teacher's' certificate, and
after that for some years he taught in the schools alternately. In that way
he acquired a liberal education by taking summer courses in the Ohio
Northern University at Ada, and in 1893 was graduated in law at this
institution. He continued teaching until 1895 and then for a year practiced
at Ottawa, Ohio. In 1896 he established his home in Dover, and for twenty
years in one capacity or another was actively identified with the newspaper
business. In 1916 he engaged in the practice of law as his regular
profession. For the past fifteen years he has held the office and performed
the duties of justice of the peace. In 1902 he was elected mayor of Dover,
was reelected in 1904, and then and since has given much time to the
affairs of the community. He was for about twenty years a member of the
Dover Chamber of Commerce, and its secretary for most of that time. Mr.
Weaver is a republican, and fraternally is affiliated with the Modern
Woodmen of America and the National Union. He married, in 1904, Miss
Elizabeth Berndt.


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