Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, Boyd County F.W. Weis, M.D., was born in Grayson County, Ky., October 9, 1852, and is the only living son of Daniel K. and Hannah (Throop) Weis, natives of Brownsville, Pa. and Alexandria, Va. Daniel K. Weis was born in 1816, is a lawyer, was editor of the Ashland, (Ky.) Express, and is now Postmaster of Ashland. D.K. Weis has during all his life, since he became of age, held very responsible positions, and has made himself acquainted with the political issues of the day and is today better posted on such subjects than almost any man in his part of the State; is a consistent Christian, a Master Mason, and has in time held the highest office within the power of the Temple of Honor to grant in the State. F.W. Weis was educated at the Flemingsburg Academy and at Owensboro, and at the age of eighteen began to read medicine; in 1874 he graduated at the medical department of Louisville University, and in 1879 graduated from the Eclectie School of Medicine, at St. Louis, Mo. For five years he was assistant physician and surgeon in the hospitals and asylums of St. Louis then he moved to Howard County, Mo., where he remained until 1884, when he returned to Kentucky and settled in Louisa, Lawrence County. He is now United States examining surgeon of applicants for pension, and in August, 1886, was elected county coroner. He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the county medical society, and health officer of Lawrence County, Ky., appointed by the State board of health. October 19, 1881, he married Miss Josie Evas, of Howard County, Mo., and to this union have been born two children: Leroy Davere, aged five years, and Phares Rolla, aged two and one-half years. Weis Throop Evas = PA VA Howard-MO Lawrence-KY Grayson-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/boyd/weis.fw.txt