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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 8a by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1888.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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GEORGE M. WEYLER was born in Louisville, March 24, 1848, and is a son of George Weyler, who was a native of Germany, immigrated to America in 1830, came to Louisville from New Orleans in 1832, and in the following year was married to Miss Catherine Kritzer, and for many years thereafter resided in Louisville. Our subject, at the breaking out of the civil war, being yet a mere boy, joined the Union army; he enlisted in March, 1863, in the Twenty-second Indiana Battery, Light Artillery, and served bravely till the close of the struggle, when he returned to Louisville and was married to Miss Eliza Phelps, February 26, 1874, a daughter of William and Susan Phelps. They have five children — Katherine, born April 27, 1875; Wm. Henry, December 2, 1876; Susan Belle, October 30, 1880; John Robert, May 17, 1885, and Joseph Frederick, January 4, 1888. Mr. Weyler afterward removed to a farm in Bullitt County, where he at present resides.

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This family biography is one of 27 biographies included in the Bullitt County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 8a published in 1888 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company.  For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 8a

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