Biography

01/21/1845 - 08/24/1908

WEIHE, William, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, January 21, 1845 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa.; iron worker; elected, school director; elected as Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1883 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1885 term; president, Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of the United States (1886-1895); presidential appointee, board of inquiry, Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, United States, Ellis Island, NY (1896-1908); died, August 24, 1908 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, South Side Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.