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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of D. P. WEAVER, M.D. 

[Surnames: CORNWELL, CURTIS, LUCAS, WEAVER] 

D. P. WEAVER, M.D. 

    
The town of Avon has profited by the professional services of Dr. D. P. Weaver since the establishment of his branch office here in 1890. The early life of Dr. Weaver was spent on a farm in Greene County, PA where he was born in February 1848, and which is also the native place of his parents, Isaac and Eliza (Cornwell) Weaver. 
    
From the country schools he went to Green Academy at Carmichael PA, and his professional training was received at Cincinnatti Eclectic College from which he graduated in 1886, and at the Americal Medical College, St. Louis, which he attended for a year. 
    
He came to Illinois in 1870, combining teaching and farming for several years, this earning the money to pay for his collegiate course. Immediately after graduating he settled in Prairie City, and at the end of four years (in 1890) he established the branch at Avon. 
    
The marriage of Dr. Weaver and Elizabeth J. Lucas was in McDonough County in 1873. Mrs. Weaver is a daughter of Joseph Lucas an early settler in the southern part of McDonough County. 
    
Mr. and Mrs. Weaver have had three children: Florence J. is the wife of Mr. Curtis of McDonough Co. Beulah E. and Lloyd W. are at home.