BIOGRAPHY: S. A. WEIMER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 84-5
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S. A. WEIMER, alderman of the eighth ward, Johnstown, a son of David and 
Catharine (Hartman) Weimer, was born March 14, 1846, in Milford township, 
Somerset county.
     His grandfather, Samuel A. Weimer, was a farmer of Milford township, 
Somerset county, in all probability of German descent. He furthermore enjoyed 
the distinction of having served in the Revolutionary War.
     The father of our subject was born in Somerset county, December, 1814, and 
died in 1875 in Ligonier, Westmoreland county. He was a farmer of consequence in 
his neighborhood, a Lutheran and an old-time whig and republican. To his union 
with the mother of our subject seven children were born: Franklin, a farmer of 
Ligonier; Daniel H., who died in 1867 at Ligonier; Susanna, wife of Franklin 
Walters, of West Mills, Somerset county; Eliza, of Hills View, Westmoreland 
county, Pennsylvania; Lydia, wife of G. W. Beck, of Hills View, Westmoreland 
county; Lavina, widow of John T. Beam, of Waterford, Westmoreland county, 
Pennsylvania, and the subject of this sketch.
     S. A. Weimer married Elvira Beck, a daughter of David B. Beck, and had four 
children: Daniel, a justice of the peace of upper Yoder township, married Millie 
Hershberger; David P., a student preparing for the profession of law; Ora, who 
is at home, and Catharine, who died in infancy.
     Mr. Weimer's second wife was Mrs. Almira Vickroy (nee Osborn), who has been 
to him a helpmeet indeed.
     He was educated at Centerville, Somerset county, and in local normal 
schools, and taught acceptably ten successive terms, three in Somerset county 
and seven in Westmoreland county.
     He was well equipped for making his way in life, having learned the 
carpenter trade, as well as the teachers' profession. He followed contracting 
from 1867 to the present time, formerly doing an extensive business in that 
line. In addition he owns a farm of sixty acres in Upper Yoder township.
     He has always been a staunch republican, and an influential member of the 
Presbyterian church. The esteem in which his fellow-citizens hold him has been 
manifested by electing him to various offices within their gift. He served as 
first burgess of Grubtown, as school director, and for nine years as justice of 
the peace of his borough, and when that borough became the eighth ward he was 
elected alderman, serving ever since. Like every good citizen, he takes an 
active interest in local politics.