Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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MATHIAS T. WESTON

Mathias T. WESTON, foreman of the car department of the Missouri Valley Railroad shops, came to Missouri Valley in June, 18?8, and engaged with the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad Company for which he is still working.

Mr. WESTON was born in Huntingdon County, Pa., October 24, 1853, and is the son of John and Mary (RIDER) WESTON. His father's people were of English descent and his mother's, of German. But his families have been in Pennsylvania for many generations. The father was a carpenter by trade and died in the spring of 1876. The mother died in the summer of 1869. They were the parents of three sons and four daughters, three now living. Our subject was the youngest child. His sister, Lydia C., wife of W.C. GARDNER, resides in Altoona, Pa., and is a machinist, employed by Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Another sister, Sally A., the wife of Jerry NARHOOF, resides near Warrior's Mark, Huntingdon County, Pa.

Our subject's early education was received in his native county. He there learned the cabinet maker's trade, and soon after entered the car shops of Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Altoona, with whom he remained continually until he came to Missouri Valley with the exception of a year or so spent traveling in different States.

Our subject was married November 28, 1886, to Clara M. HUFF, the daughter of Miriam HUFF, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work.

Politically, Mr. WESTON is identified with the Republican party. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, belonging to Missouri Valley Lodge, No. 232, of A.F & A.M., and Triune Chapter, No. 81 as well as Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 17 at Council Bluffs.

Our subject's life is an example of what duty faithfully performed with accomplish, as it will be been by the above that nearly all of his active life has been spent in the employ of two great corporations, the Pennsylvania and North-western railroad systems. He is a skilled artisan, and hence a valuable man for the railroad shops over which he is foreman. In his manner, he is genial, wholesouled and friendly, and hence is very naturally, a popular man, in the society in which he moves.

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