Biography

06/29/1868 - 02/25/1940

WEIR, William T., Jr., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, June 29, 1868 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; attended, Peirce’s Business College; secretary, Gates Homemade Candy Company; business manager, A.C. Keeley Confectionary Company; vice president, Rockland Building and Loan Association of Logan; director, Forward Building and Loan Association of Kensington; president, 42nd Ward Republican Club (3 years); delegate, Republican State Convention (1910); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1914; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1916); employed, inheritance tax division, Pennsylvania Department of Revenue; died, February 25, 1940 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.