Person:Nathan Weston (10)

NATHAN WESTON, JR., was a native of Augusta, son of Chief Justice Weston, and a graduate of Bowdoin College. He came to Orono in 1837, entered into partnership with Nathaniel Wilson, and thus continued for about one year. Mr. Weston was subsequently appointed Paymaster in the Army during the Mexican war. He received a severe injury to his shoulder by being thrown from his horse while on duty, in consequence of which he became a Government pensioner. His first wife was Catharine, wife of Colonel E. Webster; his second wife a Miss Rogers, of Newton, Massachusetts. He represented Orono in the Legislature in the years 1849 and 1850. He was always a Democrat in politics. In 1850 he was chosen Clerk of the Courts for Penobscot county, and was re-elected, serving six years. He went to Bangor in 1850, and in 1858 removed to Massachusetts.^[3]

1. ↑ Nathan Weston, in Maine, United States. Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900. (FamilySearch Record Search).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} North, James W. The history of Augusta, from the earliest settlement to the present time: with notices of the Plymouth Company, and settlements on the Kennebec : together with biographical sketches and genealogical register. (Augusta Me.: Clapp and North, 1870)
   955.
3. ↑ History of Penobscot County, Maine: with illustrations and biographical sketches, 1626-1882. (Cleveland, OH: Williams, Chase & Co, 1882)
   237.