Erasmus M. Weaver, Jr.

Erasmus Morgan Weaver, Jr. was a United States Army Major General who served as the first chief of the Militia Bureau and the Chief of the Armys U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps.

The son of Erasmus M. Weaver, a prominent businessman of Lafayette, Indiana, Erasmus Morgan Weaver, Jr. was born in Lafayette on May 23, 1854. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1875 and received his commission as a Second Lieutenant of Artillery.

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