Jay Gilfillan Weiser

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Husband Jay Gilfillan Weiser ¹

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         Father: Jonathan Weiser (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary Gilfillan (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Jay Gilfillan Weiser

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He was educated at the Millersville State Normal School, under the supervision of Dr. Edward Brooks, eminent as an author of educational works, later Superintendent of the Public Schools of the City of Philadelphia. Thereafter he entered the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1882, having studied law in the office of Hon. Louis E. Atkinson, ten years a representative in Congress from the 18th Pennsylvania District, as well as having been under the tutelage of the Hon. Richard Vaux, ex-Mayor of Philadelphia, and Judge Michael Arnold, of the same city.
Mr. Weiser was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in June, 1882, upon motion of Mr. Vaux, spending some time thereafter in their law offices, from which many rising young men went forth into the professional field. He located in Middleburg, Snyder County, December 23, 1886, where he then successfully practised his profession. He was his party's nominee for District Attorney in 1888 but failed of election, because of the overwhelming majority of the opposing party; was a delegate to the Democratic Conventions in 1889 and 1891, and in 1896 was chosen at the Allentown Convention of 1896, as a Delegate to the National Chicago Convention of that year, which nominated Hon. William J. Bryan for the Presidency.
In politics he was a Democrat, clinging to the Jeffersonian traditions of the organization, and was frequently called into counsel, as a representative of his district, at conventions held for nominating State candidates and enunciating party platforms. In 1893 he was pressed by the leaders of his section of the State for a position in the Consular service, under the second Cleveland Administration; and Gov. Pattison appointed him one of the Five Commissioners to prepare the History of "The Frontier Forts of Pennsylvania," erected as garrisons by the Province, as a means of defence against the Indians, prior to the Peace Treaty of 1781. He performed his arduous work with ability and fidelity, his district composing sixteen counties of the Commonwealth. Mr. Weiser was President of the Snyder County Historical Society.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1070.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1071.