NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS:  WEEMS, Capell L.
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CAPELL L. WEEMS is an able young lawyer, who is fast earning for himself an
honored place in the ranks of the profession. He was born at Whigville,
Marion Township, July 7, 1860. He attended the common and normal schools
until the age of sixteen, when he began teaching school, and taught with
occasional interruptions until he began the practice of law. He studied law
under the tuition of Dalzell & McGinnis, beginning at the age of nineteen,
and was admitted to the bar in October, 1881. He then took a position as
superintendent of schools at Senecaville, Guernsey County, where he
remained until 1883. In the spring of that year he settled in Caldwell, and
entered upon the practice in partnership with James M. McGinnis, Esq. Mr.
Weems was elected prosecuting attorney in 1884, and has ably discharged the
duties of that position. In November, 1883, he was married to Mary B. Nay.

History of Noble County, Ohio Published by L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago
1887 The Legal Profession


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