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James S. Weaver, who has been an agent for the Kansas & Texas Coal Company, at Huntington, since 1887, was born in Maryland in 1837, and is a son of Daniel and Sarah (Wetzel) Weaver, who were born in Pennsylvania and Maryland, respectively, and married in the latter State. The father died there in 1883, and the mother in 1886, in the city of Baltimore. The father was a farmer by occupation, and of German descent. His father, Daniel Weaver, passed his life in Adams County, Penn. James S. Weaver is the eldest of a family of fourteen children, of whom eleven are living. All with the exception of one have families. James is the only one living West. He received a common-school education during his youth, and in 1858 went to Alton, Ill., where for a number of years he was interested in the grocery and grain business. While there he was married, in 1868, to Mary E., daughter of John Darneille, of Madison County, Ill., where Mrs. Weaver was born. Mrs. Weaver’s father was one of the well-to-do farmers, traders and pioneers of Madison County, Ill. Since that time Mr. Weaver has been engaged in the grain or grocery business, one year at Des Moines, Iowa, Oswego, Kas., six years, and two years, at Salina, Kas. From 1879 until 1887 he engaged in the grain business at Stanberry, Mo., when he removed to near Kirkwood, St. Louis, Mo. Since the fall of that year he has been employed in Huntington, as above stated. Mr. Weaver has a nice home in town; in politics he is a Democrat, and his first presidential vote was cast for Douglas, in 1860.