Husband Rev. Daniel Weiser, D.D. 1 2
Born: Abt 1799
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Died: 2 Dec 1875 1
Buried: 9 Dec 1875 - New Goshenhoppen Reformed Church, Montgomery Co, PA 1
Father: John Conrad Weiser ( - ) 2
Mother: Barbara [Unk] ( - ) 1
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Other Spouse: Lydia Ruth ( - ) 1
Wife Caroline Boyer 1
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1 M Rev. Clement Z. Weiser, D.D. 2 3
Born: - Union (later Snyder) Co, PA
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Spouse: Louisa C. Gutelius ( - ) 3
Marr: 1859 3
General Notes: Husband - Rev. Daniel Weiser, D.D.
In his youthful years he was employed as clerk in the service of his brother Conrad at Beavertown, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. In his fourteenth year he enlisted as a volunteer in Nerr Middlesworth's company and served in the War of 1812 for four months, after which he was discharged, the war having ended. For this act of youthful patriotism he was rewarded with one hundred and sixty acres of land in 1861, and a pension of twelve dollars per month in 1871 to the day of his death. His trade was that of a nailsmith during his first manhood. In his twenty-second year he commenced the study of theology under the Rev. James R. Riley, of Hagerstown, Maryland. He subsequently continued and completed his course under the Rev. Henry Yost Fries, of Mifflinsburg, Pennsylvania. He was licensed to preach the gospel in 1822 and ordained by the Synod in 1823. His first charge was composed of three congregations, located around Selinsgrove, Snyder County, which subsequently embraced fourteen stations. Here he labored ten years.
In 1833 he succeeded as pastor over the New Goshenhoppen and Great Swamp charge, over which he ministered as an active pastor for thirty years, serving during the last twelve years as superintendant of the Infant Sunday-school, occasional assistant to his son and temporary supply in vacant fields. Pastor Weiser continued healthy and vigorous to the last. On the 22d day of November, 1875, after complaining of a cold for several days, he was stricken with paralysis. After lingering for ten days, with conscious and unconscious intervals, he died December 2d, at the age of seventy-six years. He was buried on December 9th, at the New Goshenhoppen Reformed Church, amid many of his former members and friends. But two children survived him, a son and a daughter, Pastor Weiser had served but two charges during a ministerial life of fifty-two years. His first field embraced the church in which he had been baptized by the Lutheran pastor, Iasensky, and subsequently confirmed by the Reformed pastor, Isaac Gerhart. He was a self-made man, and for a man in his circumstances, or of his opportunities, we would pronounce him well-made. Franklin and Marshall College conferred the title of Doctor of Divinity upon him during the evening of his life.
General Notes: Wife - Caroline Boyer
from Norristown, Montgomery Co, PA