John Andrew Weir and Maria Matilda Fahnestock

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Husband John Andrew Weir ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Jan 1802 or 19 Jan 1802 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 3 4
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           Died: 10 Oct 1881 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 3
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         Father: Capt. Samuel Weir (1744-1820) 3
         Mother: Mary Wallace (1765-1836) 3

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Catharine E. Wiestling (1810-1845) 4 5

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Wife Maria Matilda Fahnestock ²

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            AKA: Mary Matilda Fahnestock 3
           Born: 15 Dec 1808 2
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           Died: 28 Aug 1883 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 4
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         Father: Obed Fahnestock (1770/1770-1840) 6
         Mother: Anna Maria Gessell (1777-1842/1847) 6

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General Notes: Husband - John Andrew Weir

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He was educated in the private schools of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and at the Harrisburg Academy. He learned coach-making, and subsequently went into the hardware business, which he continued a number of years, afterwards connecting with it the drug trade, taking into partnership his nephew, D. W. Gross. During the administration of Governor Ritner he served as a clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. In 1840 he was elected prothonotary of Dauphin County, a position he filled two terms (six years). While serving in this office he was chosen a director of the Harrisburg Bank, and afterwards became teller in that institution, in which capacity he continued until 1880. While performing these duties, he was treasurer of the State Lunatic Hospital at Harrisburg from its first establishment in 1850 to 1880. For nearly fifty years he was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Harrisburg, and took a warm interest in the promotion of the Sunday-school system. He was one of the first, firmest, and influential friends of the anti-slavery cause in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 546, 549.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 102, 225.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 546.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 225.

5 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 549.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 100.