Induction Year: 1986

Dr. Samuel L. Weir, Class of 1926, was nominated by Ruth Richardson, a member of his office staff. He grew up on a farm near Mechanicstown. He walked two and one-half miles to the New York Central Railroad and rode the train into Minerva to attend high school. Passable roads were non-existent in the winter in those days. If you could get there, you could go there. There were no boundaries of school districting to worry about. After high school graduation, he attended The Ohio State University. After one quarter, an attack of appendicitis sent him home, and then in August of 1927, he and his brother developed polio. He suffered paralysis, but his brother was left paralyzed in the right arm and leg. He returned to Ohio State the fall quarter of 1928 and knew what he wanted to do with his life; become a doctor. In 1935 he received his doctor of medicine degree and began his internship at Mercy Hospital in Canton.