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Dr. John B. Weever, who, while he lived in Posey county, was the most popular physician therein, was “to the manner born,” his father being a physician of note. He was born in Hallowell, Me., September 25, 1836, one of seven children born to Dr. Charles S. and Mary (Trafton) Weever, natives both of Maine. Dr. Charles Weever, the father of John B., came to Indiana in 1837 and located at Evansville, Ind., where he practiced his profession and held the chair of Professor of Anatomy in the Evansville (Ind.) Medical College for one year, and then came to Mt. Vernon, where he died April 21, 1862. Dr. John secured such education as could be had in the common schools of the city where he resided. At the age of fourteen he attended a full course of lectures in Evansville, Ind. He continued his studies until he was nineteen, when he entered the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, graduating in 1858. He was for a while in the office of old Sam Gross, the “Father of American Surgery.” After receiving his degree he came to Mt. Vernon and practiced with his father until the death of the latter in 1861. In December, 1862, he married Miss Emma Slocum, an accomplished young lady of Carmi, Ill. They became the parents of seven children, three of whom are now living. In the year 1886 he removed to Evansville, Ind., where he still lives, and though he is seventy-seven years of age, still practices his profession. He is a member of the County, State and America Medical associations. The doctor is tall, straight, broad-shouldered, apt at repartee and noted for the ease, grace and graciousness of his manners and his courtesy to the younger members of the profession. May he long continue to live and practice the profession of which he is an ornament.