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Notes:
Easton Daily Argus, Thursday, December 13, 1900
Jacob W. Weaver
Jacob Weygandt Weaver, one of the oldest and best known school teachers
Eastern Pennsylvania, died at 6:30 o'clock this morning at his home,
corner of Bank and Bushkill Streets, after an illness of several weeks,
in the sixty-fourth year of his age. The deceased had been in ill health
for several weeks preceding Thanksgiving day, but on that day he suffered
a stroke of paralysis and a week ago suffered a second stroke which
left him very week.
The deceased was a native of Plainfield Township and a son of the
long since deceased Mr. and Mrs. Michael Weaver. When he was but two
or three years old, his parents moved to this city, and he has resided
here ever since. Mr. Weaver was a graduate of Lafayette college in
the class of 1857 and in 1859 entered the service of the borough of
Easton as a teacher. He continued in this profession, with the exception
of a year or two until the time of his death. For a number of years
he was a teacher in the high school of the city and was noted far and
wide as a scholar of exceptional ability and a linguist of notes.
During the rebellion he joined the militia in this city which was
organized at the time of the battle of Antietam in 1863. The deceased
is survived by a brother, Valentine Weaver, of Phillipsburg, and a
sister, Miss Susan Weaver with whom he resided. He was a member of
St. John's Lutheran Chruch, this city. The funeral will take place
on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, services at St. John's church,
interment in the Easton Cemetery. |
