BIO:  Rev. Elias D. WEIGLE, Germany Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 435-436

REV. ELIAS D. WEIGLE, A.M., pastor of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheral Church, 
Littlestown, was born in Butler Township, this county, January 19, 1848, a son 
of Christian and Elizabeth (Guise) Weigle.  Christian Weigle was a farmer, a 
native of York County, but for upward of fifty years a resident of this county, 
and died in Tyrone Township, October 2, 1879, aged seventy-two years.  His 
widow, also a native of this county, is still living in Tyrone Township.  The 
subject of this sketch remained with his father until he was twenty-one.  He 
then attended school at Hunterstown for about four months, and on returning home 
he took charge of the school near his father’s where he had formerly been a 
pupil, and kept it one term.  After the close of his school in the spring of 
1870, he became a student at the Selingsgrove Missionary Institute, to prepare 
himself for college.  After close application for eleven months he entered the 
freshman class at the institute, and, during the freshman and sophomore years, 
he became a tutor there, at the same time keeping up with his studies.  In 1873 
he entered the junior class of Pennsylvania College, and was graduated there in 
June, 1875, with the fourth honor of his class.  He then accepted the 
professorship of mathematics and English at the Missionary Institute for one 
year, and, in the fall of 1876 entered the theological seminary at Gettysburg, 
and was graduated with his class in June, 1878, having supplied the St. Paul’s 
pulpit at Littlestown from January 20 until September, 1878, when he was 
ordained and became the regular pastor.  While at Pennsylvania College he was a 
leading spirit in the literary societies, and was one of the orators at the 
biennial anniversary of the Phrenakosmian Society, of which he was a member 
February 22, 1874, and is still deeply interested in the college and its 
affairs, on which he keeps an affectionate eye.  He contributes literary 
articles to the Lutheran Quarterly, and is a regular correspondent for several 
newspapers.  During his ministry at St. Paul’s he has also acted as secretary of 
the West Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and continues to 
be a close student and careful reader of the literature of the day.  He is at 
present a director in the seminary, Gettysburg, Penn.  Mr. Weigle was married, 
October 16, 1879, to Hannah Bream, a daughter of William and Harriet Bream, and 
they have two children:  Luther Allen and Harriet E.