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The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . bsequent-ly engaged in the livery busi-ness, became one of the pro-prietors of the Providence mailand stage line, and for manyyears was one of the managersof this enterprise. But h
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . bsequent-ly engaged in the livery busi-ness, became one of the pro-prietors of the Providence mailand stage line, and for manyyears was one of the managersof this enterprise. But his ac-tive mind conceived a largerundertaking, and in 1843 he be-came proprietor of the OceanHouse, which has a nationalreputation. When Newportwas incorporated as a city, became one of its al-dermen, and for fifteen years hewas actively engaged as a mem -ber of one or the other of itsmunicipal bodies. He was orig-inally a whig in politics, and subsequently became arepublican, representing his district in the state legis-lature in 1863-64. In religious belief he is a Unitar-ian, and was president of the board of trustees of theChanning Memorial church at Newport. In 1832Mr. Weaver married Susan, daughter of Ray andSarah Bliven of Newport, and has three children, ason, John G., being associated with his father as oneof the proprietors of the Ocean House, Newport, andthe Everett House, New York 302 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA
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