George Washington University Law School - Class Book Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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-+-e-W'--'--fr'-fi FERDINAND A. WEILER. Ferdinand Albert Weiler, of Washington, D. C., was born in that city April 6, 1870. He attended the public schools of Washing- ton, and was graduated from the High School with the Class of 'go 5 in the Fall of the same year he entered Cornell Univer- sity, where he remained a little more than three yerrs, he then returned to Washing- ton to commence the study of law. C. CAMPBELL WELLS. Cyrus Campbell Wells, of Chicago, was born near Independence, Pa., August 19, 1870, and at an early age migrated with his parents to the prairies of Southern Iowa, locating at Humes- ton, Wayne county. Here his early life was spent, attending the neighboring schools and assisting on his father's farm. In the Spring of '89 he commenced teaching in the county schools but disliking this Work, he shortly afterwards went to Chicago and entered the office of a large piano manufacturing corn pany. In this position he served for nearly I . .,,. f,,,f ,,...,,.,f,f ,f. ' ' I three years, receiving occasional promotions ' A -1 and acquiring splendid ideas of business generally. Having devoted his spare time ' if fiic 4 ,.l to study, he successfully passed the Civil , punzvpyp Service examinations as clerk and steno- , grapher in the Fall of ,93, and the following 'ffl February was tendered his present position H' ' :' 1 il I in the Navy Department at Washington. Mr. Wells, upon completing the post- i ' graduate course, will probably return to the ' , ffl .V West to practice his profession. 71 l

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PERE G. WALLMO. Pere Gustave Wallmo, of Middletown, Connecticut, was born in Sweden, February 13, 1871, and emigrated to the United States in 1885. Entered Yale College in 1889, but left in 1892 to accept a position in the War Departmentg resigned in 1894, and returned to Middletown, where he was engaged in newspaper work until December, ,when he returned to Washington as secretary to the Representative in Congress from the Second Dis- trict of Connecticut. HARRY O. WEAVER. Harry O. Weaver was born December 19, 1873, at Weaver's Station, near Greenville, Darke County, Ohiog moved to the latter town when twelve years of age and there received a common school education. f------ In 1890 went to Cleveland, Ohio, and grad- -3 , oilt, uated from the Spencerian Business College o,',,., in that cityg was engaged in clerical work ,'2t 'V-Vp,,. J i i',, 4 there until the latter part of 1893, when he ,V returned to Greenville. Took the Civil up L'1E In Service examination at Cincinnati, in Octo- ,,.: ber, 1894, and in November of the same - L year received an appointment to the U. S. Fish Commission, where he is at present npzl employed. Was married July 18, 1895, to , .i, if Miss Ida B. Maurer, of Greenville, Ohio. 70

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School. Will locate in JOSEPH WICKES WELSH. joseph Wickes Welsh, a native of the city of Philadelphia, now a resident of Washington, but formerly a resident of Baltimore, Md., was educated at Lehigh University 3 and while there became a mem- ber of the Delta Phi fraternity and the Theta Nu Epsilon Sophomore Society. After leaving college, he practiced architec- ture in Washington 3 and subsequently, in in the Fall of 1895, entered Columbian Law Baltimore SMA 74