Representative George Weyand View All Years
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George Weyand
Jefferson County
Born at White Horse, on the summit of the Alleghany Mountains, in Pennsylvania, in 1805. After receiving a common-school education he engaged at various times in wood sawing, shoemaking and stage driving until 1838, when he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Grove, and immediately emigrated by stage and water to lowa, and settled on a farm in Jefferson County. Mr. Weyand took a prominent part in all political, educational and general industrial interests of Iowa, and in 1840 was elected to the Territorial Legislature. He was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1844, and served as a member of the Capitol commission. He subsequently served as a member of the State Legislature, and in 1860 was nominated to the State Senate, in opposition to James F. Wilson, but declined on account of a disease of the eye, which finally caused his total blindness. He was of German birth, but fully imbued with American ideas. Although a life-long Democrat he was yet an anti-slavery man and radically opposed to the Rebellion. He lived to see his long cherished hope realized in the inauguration of a Democratic President. Mr. Weyand died in June, 1885.
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