Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-27

when he consented to become candidate
for Select Council and was elected to rep
resent the Seventh now the Eleventh ward.
He took an active part in the Fremont
Buchanan campaign. He was the first reg
ular secretary of the Republican County
Committee when the party was organized
| and by his exertions he won the nomination
| for Mayor at the ensuing municipal election
in 1857. He was elected over the Demo-
cratic and Native American candidates by a
majority of 483. Among the unpleasant
cases he was called upon to take action was
the arrest and Imprisonment OF ex-Mayor
Joseph Barker who served nine months In
the county Jail for delivering obscene
speeches During his term OF office
Mayor Weaver was elected iife mem
Der of the State Agricultural Society
in recognition of the prominent part he took
in the big fair of '57. Before his year ex-
pired a new city charter was put into effect
and the mavoralty term of office made two
instead of one wear. At the expiration of
his term he was reelected by majority of
1,485 over Christopher Magee, Democrat,
now Associate Judge of Common Pleas
Court No. 2.
THE POOR NOT FORGOTTEN.
During his second term he interested him.
self in the relief OF the poor people Of Gin
cinnati bv sending them 40 cars of coal
during the fuel famine. One of the most i'm
portant civic events during the term was the
celebration OF the one hundredth anniversary
of Pittsburg, November 25, 1858. Al the
expiration of the term he refused to again
become a candidate, although certain OF
election and was succeeded by George Will
son. In 1860 upon his retirement from
office he engaged in the oil refining business
with his brother-in-law, Robert Arthurs
and DR.. Biddle.
A, the Chicago convention in 1860, he
was delegate and voted for Abraham Lin
coin on the second ballot and stuck to him
until Mr.. Lincoln was nominated. The
| next day he visited the martyred Presi-
dents home in Springfield, and later
obtained from Albert Nickolay, President
Lincoln's private secretary, walnut rail
split bv Mr. Lincoln while the latter was
farmer. Mr.. Weaver brought it to Pitts
burg, and it was carried in campaign
parades throughout the county for years
afterward.
In 1861 Governor Curtin appointed Mr..
Weaver commissary of two State camps in
Western Pennsylvania, Camp Wilkins and
Camp Wright, with the rank of Major.
When the camps were broken up he was ap-
pointed a United States Commissarv, with
the same rank, and was assigned to General
eMcCaul's division, Pennsylvania Reserves.
FIRST UNITED STATES ASSESSOR.
In June 1862 when Congress passed the
United States revenue bill. Major Weaver
was appointed the first assessor. He held
the position until 1869. when he resigned
and was succeeded by Hon. Russell Errett.
In the same year Mayor Weaver was elected
President OF the Monongahela Savings
Bank, director in the Odd Fellows and
Mechanics Bank, and was one of the ap-
plicants for a charter for the Union Insur-
ance Company in 1871. A year later he,
with others, applied for charter for the
Monongahela Incline Company and built
the plane. In 1874 he was elected trustee
of the Dollar Savings Bank, which he held
until the time of his death. He was one of
the original organizers of st. Peters Church
and had been commitment of the
church until the time Of his death. He was
a member of the Chamber of Commerce and
one of the original life members OF the
Exposition Society. He was also member
of the Masonic fraternity, Washington
Lodge No. 81. He was a manager of the
Western Pennsylvania Humane Society,
and at the time of mis- death was in the real
estate business with his son-in-law, J. L.
Marshall
Mr.. Weaver's sister Barbara was married
to Captain David Holmes, brother of Miss
Jane Holmes, who died about six years ago,
and who was we'll known for her charitable
deeds. Mr.. Weaver's brother Joseph prac-
ticed law in this city, and later removed to
Iowa, where he purchased 4SO acres of
ground upon which the town of Durant now
stands.