Biography of Daniel W. Weitz, page 143.   History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen and William H. 
McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Daniel W. Weitz, who was through the Civil war as a Union soldier, has 
for half a century been an honored resident of Williams and DeKalb counties, 
for more that fifty years being a farmer in Troy Township of the latter 
county.  His home is a half mile west of Arctic.
  Mr. Weitz, who is also a justice of the peace, was born in Portage County, 
Ohio, June 7, 1840, son of Adam and Elizabeth (Yeager) Wietz.  His father 
was born at Hesse Darmstadt, Germany in February, 1810, while the mother was 
born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. They were married September 17, 1839, 
at Franklin Mills in Portage County by B.F. Hopkins. They lived in Portage 
County for several years, and in 1846 became pioneers in Williams County, 
Ohio, where they spent the rest of their lives at Edgerton.   Adam Weitz 
was reared a Catholic but later became a prominent member of the Methodist 
Church and founded the Weitz Methodist Episcopal Church in Williams 
County. He also took up democratic affiliation in politics but in 1856 
joined the newly established republican party.   He held several township 
offices. He and his wife had a family of eleven children, nine of whom are 
still living: Daniel W.; John A., deceased; Harriet; Lucina and Lavina, 
twins; Joseph; Charles W.; Thomas T.; George A.; Francis E. and William 
A., deceased.
   Daniel W. Weitz grew up on a farm in Williams County and acquired most 
of his education in school district No. 3 and in high school at Williams 
Center. He also made liberal use of his opportunities to study outside of 
school, and became a very successful teacher, a vocation he followed for 
about twenty years. Most of his teaching he did after the war.  In 1861 he 
enlisted in Company H of the Third Ohio Cavalry, and was with that command 
until the close of hostilities, being mustered out with the rank of first 
sergeant. Though he was never wounded nor taken prisoner he was confined 
to a hospital by illness for six months.
  After the war he returned to Williams County and on October 11, 1868, 
married Mary E. Bowersox.  She was born in St. Joe Township of Williams 
County, being the first white girl born in that township.  She was a 
sister of Judge C.A. Bowersox of Bryan, Ohio.  In 1869, soon after their 
marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Weitz removed to Troy Township of DeKalb County, 
and have had their home there for over fifty years.  He owns a farm of 130 
acres. He was also the first president of the First National Bank of 
Butler, serving for three years, then became the vice president and is now 
a stockholder of that bank.  Mrs. Weitz died September 9, 1902. Of their 
five children three are still living: Nellie, who is a graduate of the 
high school at Edgerton, Ohio, and Tri-State College at Angola, is the 
wife of Joseph R. Wiley; Floy, who is a young woman of brilliant intellect 
and has spent twelve years as a teacher in Troy Township, is unmarried and 
lives at home with her father; Charles H. is a graduate of the Butler High 
School and Purdue University, with a degree in civil engineering, and is 
now in business at Salt Lake City.  
   Mr. Weitz is affiliated with Forest Lodge of Masons at Butler, is a 
member of Meade Post No. 144 of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a 
republican in politics. He voted for Abraham Lincoln under a pine tree in 
1864. He was then in Georgia in war service. He served as justice of the 
peace for about thirty years. During a residence in Edgerton, Ohio, he 
served as a member of the City Council and as City Solicitor.

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