People Who Aren't Me
Of course, it should not be
assumed that this is exhaustive.
- The Dr.
Thomas G. Wier at Northeastern State University, professor of
economics.
- The author of a role-playing fanfic, "Never
Childhood".
- The Thomas W. Wier
who
is a "codemaniac".
- The Civil War captain, Thomas
Dabney Wier, who is my great-great-grandfather.
- The Thomas P. Wier who
was a member of the Georgia 5th Infantry Regiment, veteran of the
battle of Chickamauga among others (no relation).
- The Dr.
Thomas P. Wier, Jr., my late grandfather, who discovered how to
electroplate aluminum in 1943, and was a poet, teacher, inventor, and
author of two books.
- The Thomas P.
Wier,
III, my father, who is a CPA, CVA and medical practice broker.
- The advocate
of Cold Fusion web applications.
- The signer of
the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession.
- The olympic
torchbearer of Walla Walla, Washington (along with his family who now
reside in Boulder, Colorado).
- The juror
in Marshall Co., Illinois, in 1870.
- The recipient
of 108 acres of land in Washington Co., Pennsylvania, on 27 April 1804.
(The same as the man
who died on 7 Dec 1848 at the age of 83? Dunno.)
- The trustee
for Campbell Co., Tennessee, from 1846 til 1856.
- The brother-in-law
of an Indiana infantryman who died at the Battle of Collierville.
- The resident
of Carmi township in Pratt Co., Kansas, listed on the 1895 Kansas
Census.
- The late Thomas
Edward Wier, husband of Marianne Adair Wier.
- The Thomas
de Vere (b. ca. 1246) who is presumably my ancestor, and any number
of
his numerous descendents also named Thomas Wier.
- The videographer
for the Alabama Public Television program "Physics is Fun!".
- The charter
member of Mt. Olivet Presbyterian Church.
- The author
of East of Kathmandu, also an early Western explorer of
the Rolwaling Valley in Tibet.
- The director
of the Minnesota Air National Guard Museum.
- The treasurer
of the Moreno Valley Educators Association.
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