Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

REV. W. WEIGAND, Beardstown; was born in Zanesville, O., in 
April, 1852; son of John and Elizabeth Weigand. In 1854 his 
parents moved to Mt. Sterling, Brown Co., Ill., where our 
subject lived till he was fifteen years of age, when he 
entered upon his preparatory course at St. Francis' 
Seminary, Milwaukee, Wis., and completed the course at St. 
Joseph's Ecclesiastical College, at Teutopolis, Ill., in 
1873. In 1875, he entered Mt. St. Mary's Theological 
Seminary, Cincinnati, O., from which he graduated in the 
spring of 1878, receiving the major and minor orders, and 
that of Deacon, from Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, O. 
He was ordained to the priesthood, Nov. 10, 1878, by Bishop 
Baltes, of Alton, Ill., and in December of the same year 
was established Rector of St. Alexius Church, of 
Beardstown, where he has since officiated; has established 
a parish school, and freed the church from debt.

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