Biography

01/22/1842 - 09/12/1919

WEAVER, Francis A., a Representative from Jefferson County; born, Westmoreland  County, Pa., on January 22, 1842; private, Company I, 11th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); non-commissioned officer, Company I, 9th Regiment, Ohio Calvary (Civil War); editor, Brookville Republican (1865-1885, 1894-1904); transcribing clerk, Pennsylvania State Senate (1879-1882); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Brookville (1884-1885); unsuccessful campaign for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1886); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1888; resigned from the House, December 1, 1889; chief, division of lands and railroads, Office of the Secretary of the Interior, United States Government (1889-1893); pension clerk, Interior Department, United States Government, Washington, DC (1905-1909); died, September 12, 1919 in Washington, District of Columbia; interred, Brookville Cemetery, Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.