Sunday's Obituary: James H. Weedon

Baltimore Sun (Md)
31 December 1901

JAMES H. WEEDON

A special dispatch to the Sun from Washington last night

James H. Weedon, who was prominent in business circles in Baltimore until the Civil War, died today of acute Bright's diseases at the Providence Hospital in his seventy-ninth year. Born in Prince William county, Virginia, he went to Baltimore at an early age. Immediately before and during the war he was prominently identified with the wholesale dry goods business of Baltimore and a member of the firm of Hamilton Easter & Co.  His sympathies were with the South. With other members of the firm he was arrested, charged with selling goods declared to be contraband of war and was confined in the old capitol prison in the city for a while, afterward being sent to Albany, NY for a term of 21 days. He was pardoned by President Lincoln.

After the war he embarked in the manufacture of matches, and was prospering in Baltimore, shipping large consignments to the South, when his entire plant was confiscated by order of the Federal authorities. For 23 years he had been in business in Washington, most of the time in the sale of dry goods.

At the time of his death he was employed by the Great Falls Ice Company. He was married in 1857 to Miss Frances Eleanor Giddings of Frederick county, Maryland. He is survived by T. A. Weedon, engaged in insurance in Baltimore; another son and two daughters in this city, Mr. Edwin Nelson of Manassas, Va., a brother and two sisters, Mrs. Martha Chapman, of Roanoke, Va. and Ms. Mary J. Wroe, of Springfield, S.C. Mr. Weedon was an uncle of W. J. Chapman a coal merchant, 2306 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, and John C. Wroe, of the Brown Warehouse Company, 1127 Bolten street, in the same city.