Biography

04/10/1804 - 09/17/1877

WEYAND, Daniel, a Representative from Cambria and Somerset Counties; born, April 10, 1804 in Somerset County, Pennsylvania; public school teacher; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1831-1832 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1832-1833 term; owner, Somerset Whig (1833-1840); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Somerset (1834-1841); attorney (1841-1877); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1846, 1854); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania Treasurer (1848); engaged, real estate; proprietor, Shade Furnace (1850-1858); elected, delegate, State Democratic Convention (1857, 1859); died, September 17, 1877 in Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania; interred, Union Cemetery, Somerset, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.