Biography of Robert H. Weamer, pages 1022 / 1023.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Robert H. Weamer, proprietor Weamer House, Butler, Ind., was born in Indiana 
County, Pa., April 23, 1839.  His father, Daniel H. Weamer, was a native of 
Pennsylvania, of German descent.  In 1843 the family moved to Guernsey 
County, Ohio, and in 1845 to Plymouth, Ohio, where the mother died in 1848.  
The father afterward moved to Henry County, Ohio, where he died in 1873.  
In  1857 our subject went to Napoleon, Ohio, and worked two years with his 
brother, George W., on the Napoleon Star.  Then went to Mansfield, Ohio, and 
worked on the Shield and Banner a year.  While there cast his first vote for 
Abraham Lincoln, and that fall moved to Kendallville, Ind., and was employed 
as foreman of the Kendallville Journal.  June 6, 1861, he enlisted in 
Company E, Second Kentucky Infantry, and served three years.  He 
participated in the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, Corinth, 
Anioch; was taken prisoner at Anioch.  In the first year of his service, was 
in Kanawha Valley, Va., in an active campaign.  After his return home in 
1865 he went to Cardington, Ohio, and published the Republican a few 
months.  In 1868 he formed a partnership with J.A. Myrtle in the 
publication of the Steuben Republican, at Angola, Ind.  In 1874 he 
established the De Kalb County Republican at Auburn, and conducted it till 
1879.  In 1880 he began the publication of the Butler Record, and in 1881 
established the Review, which he published till October, 1884, when he 
sold out and became the proprietor of the Boots House, now the Weamer 
House. He makes a genial, accommodating landlord, and keeps one of the 
best hotels in the county.  Mr. Weamer was married Nov. 10, 1864, at 
Urbana, Ohio, to Elvira, daughter of Wm. M. Gregg. They have had three 
children---William L., born in 1865, died in 1869; Sadie B., born April 
18, 1972; Mary Maud, born Nov. 28, 1876.  Mr. Weamer is a member of the 
Knights of Phythias and the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife 
are members of the  Methodist Episcopal church.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlnet.com