G. W. WETER, physician, Blooming Valley, was
born in Clarion County, Penn., October 20, 1847, and is a son of George
and Sarah (Lobaugh) Weter. Our subject acquired his literary education
at Callensburg (Clarion Co., Penn.,) Academy and Clarion Collegiate
Institute, Rimersburg (also in Clarion County). He then for several
years engaged in teaching, and was for two years Assistant Principal of
the Clarion Collegiate Institute. In 1871 our subject began the study of
medicine with Dr. R. C. Callahan, of Rimersburg, Penn., where he
remained until the fall of 1873. After taking a year’s course in the
medical department of the Western Reserve College, Cleveland, Ohio, he
began to practice his profession along with Dr. I. W. Mease, of
Shippenville, Clarion Co., Penn., with whom he continued a year and a
half. In the fall of 1875 the Doctor took another course at the Western
Reserve College, Cleveland, graduated in 1876, and in August of that
year located at Blooming Valley, this county, where he has since
continued in active practice. Our subject was married March 28, 1816, to
Emma J. Mease, of Clarion County, Penn., by whom he has two children:
Arthur R. and Lelah M. The Doctor and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He has held various offices of trust in Blooming
Valley. In politics he is a Republican.
History of Crawford County,
Pennsylvania: containing a
history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools,
churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent
men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous
matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885.
View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.
Free access
More
Crawford County History Books
Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History
Books for biographies and historical information
on your ancestors. View the book page images on line and print them
out for your genealogy file!
Free Access to the old history books - plus birth &
death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com
.