Husband Israel Weirich 1
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Father: Jacob Weirich (1804-1885) 2
Mother: Susan Foster ( -Aft 1893) 1
Marriage: 30 Mar 1859 3
Wife Sarah Thompson 3
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Father: James Thompson ( - ) 3
Mother: Sarah [Unk] ( - ) 3
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General Notes: Husband - Israel Weirich
Born and raised on his father's farm, he followed agricultural pursuits all his life. His boyhood days would hardly accord with the popular idea of the early life of an only son. The practical side of the gospel of work was among his first lessons. A part of each winter at the district school composed the sum of his school education; and while yet very young he assumed the management of the major portion of his father's increasing interests at the sacrifice of opportunities for a more liberal education, a course which he regretted ever afterward.
He married and immediately settled on and took charge of his father's farm in the Buffalo township. Three years later he removed to his own home in Canton township, a farm of 225 acres, which he began improving until it became one of the most complete and desirable in the county. In 1887 the old homestead, which had originally been one of the old taverns in the days of the stage coach, was removed and replaced by an elegant modern structure, beautifully situated and complete in all its appointments.
He and his wife had a family of seven sons and two daughters-all living in 1893 with the exception of one daughter who died in childhood. Though his sense of duty compelled him to forego his earlier educational advantages, through the influence of extended travel, constant reading and his lively interest in all public affairs, Mr. Weirich became a man of liberal ideas and broad views. Profiting by his own experience and fully realizing the benefits of a liberal education, he sent four sons to Washington and Jefferson College, and his daughter to the Washington Female Seminary. In politics Mr. Weirich was a Republican, though not a strong partisan. He was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church; was for many years a ruling elder in the East Buffalo Church, and was one of the founders of, and a ruling elder in, the Third Presbyterian Church of Washington, Pennsylvania.
"Mr. Weirich has ever been ready to extend a helping hand to those who have been less fortunate in this world's affairs. His acts of charity, however, have always been performed in a quiet, undemonstrative manner, rendered the more so by his invariable habit of dispersing them widely and without regard to sect or creed. If, however, his charities have been extended in any one direction more than another, it has been with a view to the relief and uplifting of the colored race in the South. Ever a friend of the negroes, with a full realization of their present condition, gained directly by travel and observation in the South, and with a firm belief in a bright future for the race, he has been constant with sympathy and financial support for their cause."