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WEITZEL, CHRISTOPHER, merchant tailor, and dealer in ready-made clothing, hats, caps, etc. Mr. Weitzel located at White Hall in 1866, and opened a tailoring establishment, on Main st. Investing a small capital of $500 in a stock of goods at St. Louis, he returned to White Hall, where he was soon busily engaged securing a large patronage. Through his skill as a workman and honest dealing, he is today one of our most enterprising men and always gives the boys fits when in need of clothes. He was born at Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, in 1837; emigrated to America in 1852, and located at Darke Co., Ohio, where he became apprenticed to tailoring. When the war came on he enlisted in Co. B, 68th Regt. Ill. Volunteers; honorably discharged October, 1862, at Alton. He returned to his old employers at Decatur, and worked at his trade for a number of years, and then proceeding to Kansas, from which State he shortly after returning to Decatur, and thence to White Hall, where he was found guilty of selling first-class goods and doing first-class tailoring, and it was accordingly resolved by the good people of White Hall and vicinity that so long as he continued in his present course he should be sustained.