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GAMBLE WEIR, Pittsburgh, born Aug. 12, 1849, in County Derry, Ireland, came to this country in 1865, and settled in Pittsburgh where he learned the blacksmith business, and then went into the manufacture of wagons, trucks, etc., with his brother, James G. Weir, under the firm name of James G. Weir & Brothers. In that business he remained until the fall of 1880, when he entered the Allegheny county sheriff’s office, under Sheriff William McCallin, remaining during that sheriff’s time of office, and also two years under his successor, Col. Jos. H. Gray. Retiring from that office, Mr. Weir associated himself with Mayor William McCallin as chief of the detective service and continued in that capacity until the organization of the city government under the new city charter, when he was called by J. O. Brown, chief of the department of public safety, to the superintendency of the bureau of police, which position he has filled with credit to himself and satisfaction of the city. Mr. Weir has served three successive terms in the common council, representing the Fourth ward of Pittsburgh, where he was on important committees, being chairman of some of them. Mr. Weir has been an active politician in the city since 1872, and has at all times and under all circumstances been an ardent republican.