. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . ant Weidman, Jr., the eldest livingson of the deceased distinguished lawyerGrant Weidman, Sr., was born in Le-banon, September 3, 1868. He graduatedfrom Lebanon High School in 1885, hav-ing primarily attended the public schoolsof the city; and then received instruc-tion at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, dur-ing the following year, in preparation forhis entrance at Princeton University,where he was graduated in 1890. Turn-ing naturally to the profession of thelaw he acquired the necessary knowledgeand training, and became an attorney inLebano
. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . ant Weidman, Jr., the eldest livingson of the deceased distinguished lawyerGrant Weidman, Sr., was born in Le-banon, September 3, 1868. He graduatedfrom Lebanon High School in 1885, hav-ing primarily attended the public schoolsof the city; and then received instruc-tion at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, dur-ing the following year, in preparation forhis entrance at Princeton University,where he was graduated in 1890. Turn-ing naturally to the profession of thelaw he acquired the necessary knowledgeand training, and became an attorney inLebanon. It was not difficult to followin his fathers footsteps, nor to continuethe activities in which he had been en-gaged, so that within a short while has become a man of promi-nence in his profession. Like his father,he is also a member of the Democraticparty, and in business circles has wonfor himself a position that may well beenvied. He is a director in the LebanonNational Bank, of which his father wasdent; and is solicitor for the Le- •. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY banon County Trust Company, in whichhe is also a member of the directorate. Air. Weidman has always manifesteda strong interest in Freemasonry, and isa member of all the societies in Lebanon,in which he has become a past belongs also, by inheritance, to theSociety of the Cincinnati, of Pennsyl-vania, of which he is secretary, and to theLoyal Legion; and is a member of theSteitz Club, a local organization, and ofthe Rittenhovise, Racquet and PrincetonClubs, of Philadelphia. He has not mar- GRIPP, John, Manufacturer, Public Official. The man who possesses, in combina-tion with business ability, the qualifica-tions essential for the successful admin-istration of public office, is rarely metwith in any community. In the late JohnGripp, Pittsburgh was fortunate to countamong her citizens a man of this Gripp was the incumbent of manypublic positions which he filled withsingular ability, an
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