"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MONROE TOWNSHIP
PAGE 280

JOHN WEESNER was born in Orange County, N.C., May 14, 1835, and was brought
by his father, Josiah Weesner, to this State in 1838;  he is of German
extraction, paternally, and a descendant of Michael Weesner, who settled in
North Carolina about the middle of the eighteenth century.  He was reared a
farmer and also learned to be a carpenter.  He acquired a fair education at
the school in Hopewell, at the Allen Schoolhouse, West Union, and at No. 6,
now called the Gasburg School, supplemented with one term at the Friends'
Manual Labor School, and subsequently taught a public school.  November 15,
1866, he married Jane Allen, daughter of Charles Allen, and shortly
afterward purchased a few acres off the northeast corner of his father's
farm, erected a carpenter shop, and engaged at his trade--lumber dealing
being now a part of his business.  In 1864, he was commissioned Postmaster
at the new office of Gasburg, a position he has held ever since.


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