A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . he Republicanparty to represent his district, comprising the countiesof Lagrange and Noble, in the state Senate. In thesessions of 1877 he was chairman of the Committee onAgriculture, and a member of the Committee on SwampLands; and in the sessions of 1S79 he was a member ofthe Committees on Agriculture, Rights and Privileges, andon Roads. He interested himself in an act for the re-peal of the cash poll-tax law. It was favorably re-ported b
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . he Republicanparty to represent his district, comprising the countiesof Lagrange and Noble, in the state Senate. In thesessions of 1877 he was chairman of the Committee onAgriculture, and a member of the Committee on SwampLands; and in the sessions of 1S79 he was a member ofthe Committees on Agriculture, Rights and Privileges, andon Roads. He interested himself in an act for the re-peal of the cash poll-tax law. It was favorably re-ported by the Finance Committee, but failed in theSenate. In the discharge of his duties as a Senator, hewas attentive, industrious, and conscientious. In relig-ion Mr. Weir is unorthodox. In all the relations ofbusiness, he is just and upright, and commands theconfidence and esteem of the community in which helives. May 15, 1836, he was married to Miss Amy , of Lagrange, who died July 6, 1847, leavingthree children, two of whom survive. In 1849 ^^ wasunited in marriage with Mrs. Savillia Rice, of La-grange. She died in March, 1855, leaving one daugh-. u n 11 oOa; U lL l= u i^\ ijv4j b: = c>^. ^. /y^{^(^4^^^,y i2(h Disl.\ REPRESEXrATlVE MEX OE IXDJAXA. 75 ten He wa?. again married in 1855, to Mr^. AhigailCowley, of Greene County, New York, hy whom he liasone daughter, tILLIAMS, JESSE L., of Fort Wayne, Indiana,youngest son of Jesse and Sarah (Terrell)X Williams, was born in Stokes County, NorthCarolina, May 6, 1807. His father removed in1S14 to Ohio, and settled first at Cincinnati, which thencontained only six thousand inhabitants; he afterwardwent to Warren County, near Lebanon. In 1820 thefamily moved to a farm near Richmond, Indiana. attended for a time the Lancasterian Seminary,at Cincinnati; his youth, however, was mostly devotedto farm work, which so strengthened his constitution asto enable him afterward to endure the severe labor ofhis active professional
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