W. J. Weir Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Liberty, Biographical Sketches, Page 1031

W. J. WEIR, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Liberty Ridge. He was born in Grant Co. His 
father, Thomas Weir, came to the county in 1840, and located in the town of 
Potosi. In 1856, he bought the farm, which is now worked by the son, and where 
he lived until his death, which occurred Feb. 9, 1879. W. J. Weir was elected 
Justice of the Peace, in April, 1879. He was married, April 1, 1880, and has one 
daughter - Mamie. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.; and, in politics, is a 
Republican.