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I. J. WEIDA, M. D., a rising young physician and surgeon, was born in Shamrock, Berks County, Pa., October 17, 1866. His father, John, and grandfather, Daniel, were also born in Berks County, and the latter is still living at Shamrock, being now more than ninety years of age. The former, who is engaged in agricultural pursuits near that village, was for a time interested in the iron business and in the manufacture of cigars. In religious belief he is identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife, Sarah J., was a daughter of Jonathan Butz, a cigar manufacturer, who resided in Berks County until his death.

In the parental family there were three children, of whom two attained years of maturity, I. J. and Jerome, the latter being a graduate of the Burlington (Vt.) Medical University, also of the Pennsylvania University, and now a practicing physician of Luzerne County. Our subject was reared upon a farm until about twelve years of age. For a time he attended the public schools of Philadelphia, after which he was a student in Wyoming Seminary. While in the latter institution he began the study of medicine under his brother. In 1887 he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1890 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

Upon beginning the practice of his profession, Dr. Weida opened an office at Peale, Clearfield County, Pa., where he remained until 1893. Returning in the fall of that year to Philadelphia, he took a post-graduate course in the Polyclinic, devoting especial attention to treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. In March, 1894, he opened an office at No. 135 Second Avenue, West Bethlehem, where he carries on a regular practice, making a specialty of throat, eye, nose and ear diseases.

At Shamrock, Pa., in 1886, the Doctor married Miss Jennie Long, a native of that place, and the daughter of Marcus Long, who engaged in farming in Berks County. One child, Jennie, blesses the union. Socially the Doctor is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is an officer. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and is a Mason, being connected with the lodge at Trexlertown, the chapter at Clearfield, and the Knights Templar at Philipsburg. Politically he is a Republican. While he was at Peale he was physician to the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation, and to the Beach Creek Railroad Company, and was also consulting physician to the Philipsburgh Cottage Hospital.