Jacob A. Weyer
It requires something more than mere labor to make a success of agriculture at the present time. A farmer might work from dawn to twilight in the year and yet fail to accomplish much. There must he sound judgment and discretion exercised at the same time, and the farmer must have a knowledge of his soils, grains, live stock and many other things if he wishes to make a success of general farming. Fifty years ago the idea of putting a course of farming in our public schools and colleges would have been laughed at, and derided even, but at the present time agriculture is being taught in all of the states of the Union. Farming has risen in dignity and the man who accomplishes much as a tiller of the soil today should be accorded a place along with the men who succeed in other walks of life. It actually requires as technical an education for a man to be a successful farmer today as for a man to be a successful physician or lawyer, and the sooner the farmers of the country find this fact out, the better for the agricultural interests.
Jacob A. Weyer, one of the most prosperous farmers of Paint township, Fayette county, Ohio, was born December 5, 1850, in Highland county, this state. He is a son of William Henry Harrison and Huldah (West) Weyer. the father from Pennsyhania and the mother from Highland county, Ohio. Mrs. William Henry Harrison Weyer was the daughter of John and Barbara (Platter) West, and located in Highland county, Ohio, where she was born. The subject's father was a life-long farmer and at the time of his death was the owner of five hundred acres of fine land in Highland ccninty. William H. H. Weyer and wife were the parents of nine children, James, William, Mrs. Mary Epperson, Anna R. Hill, Jacob A., Daniel, Ella, Isabella and Albert. All of these children are still living except Mary and Albert.
Jacob A. Weyer was educated in the schools of Highland county and completed his educational training at Hillsboro, the county seat of that county. He worked on the farm in Highland county until twenty-eight years old and then came to Fayette county, where he has since resided. He is now the owner of one hundred and ninety-three acres of land along the Danville pike about two miles north of Bloomingburg, where he has been living many years. As a farmer he ranks with the most progressive of the county and has always kept pace with the latest developments in agriculture, adding new machinery as it was brought into the market and otherwise increasing the efficiency of, his work.
Mr. Weyer vas married in 1877 to Frankie Buntain. the daughter of James and Melissa (Evans) Buntain, and to this union have been born six children: Maud, the wife of Dr. E. O. Irvin, who has two children, Dorothy and Starling; Jane, unmarried; Minnie, the wife of Charles McClimans, who has one daughter, Cornelia; Mrs. Nina Junk, who has one son, Ralph; Frank, unmarried, and Mary.
The family are members of the Presbyterian church, and are greatly interested in the welfare of their denomination. Politically, Mr. Weyer is a member of the Progressive party, having become identified with that party upon its organization in 1912. He was for several years a member of the school board of his township, and in that capacity did everything he could for the benefit of the schools of his township.
From History of Fayette County Ohio - Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frank M. Allen (1914, R. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.)