Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-04
HANSON {. WEAVER DIES;
VETERAN IN US. SERVICE
Served in Civil War and Was Many
Years in Federal De.
partments.
Came to Washington in 1S45-Fu
neral Services to Be Held To-
morrow Afternoon.

Hanson E. Weaver, seventy-four
years old. veteran of the civil war. and
veteran employe of the government
service. died yesterday afternoon at
his home, 1914 Q street northwest, fol-
lowing an illness of more than a year.
The last time he was at his desk in the
ofIice of the auditor for the War De-
partment was February Is, 1914. since
when he had been confined to his bed.
Death was due to general senile de-
bility.
Funeral services are to be held at the
family residence tomorrow afternoon
at 2:30 O'Clock. Rev. DR.. Howard A.
Hannaford of the Church of the Gov
enant officiating. Interment, which is
to be private, will be in Arlington ma
tional cemetery.
Came to Capital in 1845.
Mr.. Weaver was born in Gettysburg,
Adams county, Pa, August %. 1871. He
came with his parents to Washington
March 5, 1S45, his father being such
an ardent whig that "he laid over in
Baltimore until after March 4, as he
would not come on to Washington to
see President Polk inaugurated." &C
cording to Mr.. Viewers own account.
Practically lifelong resident Of
in the public schools here. and was
graduated from the old Washington
Select Academy in 1857.
President Lincoln appointed him a
second lieutenant of the Sth United
States Infantry, June 25, 1851. He
served continuously with this regiment
until his resignation as first lieutenant
January 8, 1866.
In July of 1853 Lieut. Weaver. with
t. 4.
field and sent to New York city to put
down the draft riots, the regiment be-
ing transported there on cattle cars
The young lieutenant was in command
of a battalion of the regiment located
In Union Square, supporting battery
of artillery from Connecticut, which
had been ordered from the field for
service during the July riots.
Lieut.. Weaver next was in command
of battalion of the regiment to the
trict of New York on Rikers Island,
from which he was sent to Hart Island
after Rikers was abandoned as a mill
tary post. He was acting chief of staff
to Gen. N. ]. Jackson, commanding the
post. While on Rikers Island he or
ganized the Goth, 26th and 30th United
States colored troops, from the more
than 1900 colored men on the island.
Joins Gen. Grants Forces.
Returning with his regiment to the
field in 1854. he Joined the forces under
Gen. Grant, and began the march that
led to the fighting at the Wilderness,
Spotsylvania, etc. During those move
ments the regiment was attached to
the 9Th Army Corps. serving under
Gen. Burnside and Gen. Parke.
In August, 1854, Lieut.. Weaver was
the senior officer on duty with the
regiment. and was in command of it,
and the muster rolls of that month on
nle in the War Department are signed
Being taken i'll with a severe attack
of malarial fever, he was sent out of
the field in September, 1854. and went
to the officers' hospital in the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. While con-
valescent he was detailed as acting
assistant adjutant general to Gen.
Adrian r. Root. commanding the dis
trict of Annapolis and Camp Parole.
From there he was ordered to New
York city as mastering officer. and was
20 serving when the war ended. After
the close of the war the regiment was
ordered to Baltimore and was en-
then detached from the regiment, in
1865. and appointed on the staff of Gen.
W. 8. Hancock, commanding the mid
die military district. as eommissary of
provost marshal general under Cen
Whooley. He resigned in January
1855.
Positions With Government.
Following business ventures in Get
tysburg and Hanover, Pa, Mr.. Weaver
vas appointed to a clerkship in the
office Of the auditor for the Post Office
Department in 1859. which position he
held until June. 1885. During the Har-
rison administration he was assigned
to the supervising architects Office in
the Treasury Department. Under the
Mckinley administration he was as
signed to the Office of the auditor for
the War Department. in which office
he served until February of last year.
Mr.. Weaver for three years was cap
tain, commanding the Washington
Light Guard. a local military company
He was assistant adjutant general to
Gen. John A. Logan during the latter's
two terms as chief Of
the Grand Army of the Republic, and it
10 said to have been principally
through his labors that the Grand
Army of the Republic of recent years
was reorganized.
Mr.. Weaver was a past commander of
John A. Rawlings Post, No. l. G. A. r. He
was a member of Harmony Lodge, No.
II. F. A. A. M. His wife died in Sep
TENDER, 1907. His children, DR.. Clar-
ence A. Weaver. Miss Alice H. Weaver
and Mrs. Zell W. Jayne, survive him.