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Stuart Austin Wier

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Stuart Austin Wier

Birth
Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
23 Apr 1959 (aged 64)
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Burial
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 32.8026617, Longitude: -96.7980532
Plot
Block 8
Memorial ID
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Stuart Austin Wier, 64, of 6826 Clayton, a lawyer, writer, and lecturer, died Thursday in a hospital after a long illness. Wier had law offices in the Davis Building and was associated with Atty. Howard Moore. He was a native of (Avoyelles) Parish, La., he attended Louisiana State Normal College, Rice Institute, the University of Chicago Southern Methodist University, Cornell University and George Washington University. He served in the Army Engineer Corps during World War I. After the war, he was a lecturer under the auspices of the Chicago Welfare League and Chicago newspapers. A resident of Dallas for 40 years, he began a general law practice in 1931. His books covered a wide range of fields: Art and Science of Selling; How to Remember; Shakespeare: Re-Creator of Shakespeare, and the Rise of Individualism From a Legal Standpoint. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in George A. Brewer Funeral Chapel, 3603 Ross, with the Rev. David W. Brown officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Survivors are his wife; one son, Lt. Cmdr. Richard A. Wier of Jacksonville, Fla.; one daughter, Mrs. John Murtaugh of Everett, Wash.; two brothers, Harvey Wier of Opelousas, La., and D. Lee Wier of Houston; two sisters, Miss Claudia Wier and Miss May Wier, both of Dallas, and two grandchildren.

Stuart Austin Wier was greatly admired by motivational author Napoleon Hill, who mentioned him throughout his popular books "Think and Grow Rich" and "How To Sell Yourself."

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Stuart Austin Wier, 64, of 6826 Clayton, a lawyer, writer, and lecturer, died Thursday in a hospital after a long illness. Wier had law offices in the Davis Building and was associated with Atty. Howard Moore. He was a native of (Avoyelles) Parish, La., he attended Louisiana State Normal College, Rice Institute, the University of Chicago Southern Methodist University, Cornell University and George Washington University. He served in the Army Engineer Corps during World War I. After the war, he was a lecturer under the auspices of the Chicago Welfare League and Chicago newspapers. A resident of Dallas for 40 years, he began a general law practice in 1931. His books covered a wide range of fields: Art and Science of Selling; How to Remember; Shakespeare: Re-Creator of Shakespeare, and the Rise of Individualism From a Legal Standpoint. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in George A. Brewer Funeral Chapel, 3603 Ross, with the Rev. David W. Brown officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Survivors are his wife; one son, Lt. Cmdr. Richard A. Wier of Jacksonville, Fla.; one daughter, Mrs. John Murtaugh of Everett, Wash.; two brothers, Harvey Wier of Opelousas, La., and D. Lee Wier of Houston; two sisters, Miss Claudia Wier and Miss May Wier, both of Dallas, and two grandchildren.

Stuart Austin Wier was greatly admired by motivational author Napoleon Hill, who mentioned him throughout his popular books "Think and Grow Rich" and "How To Sell Yourself."

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