Biography

08/13/1808 - 06/04/1886

WEAVER, Michael, a Representative from Schuylkill County; born, August 13, 1808 in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa.; private, Company C, 81st Regiment, New York Infantry (1861-1865, Civil War); postmaster, Minersville, United States Postal Service (1844-1849, 1853-1855); hotel keeper; elected, delegate, Democratic State Convention (1852); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1858, 1864 and 1865 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1859 or 1866 terms; died, June 4, 1886 in Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; interred, Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.