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Weiser ( WEE-zər) is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Idaho. The city supports farm, orchard, and livestock industries. The city sits at the confluence of the Weiser River with the Snake River, which marks the border with Oregon. The population was 5,507 at the 2010 census. == History == The city was named after the nearby Weiser River, but who the river was named for is not known. One version claims it is for Peter M. Weiser, a soldier and member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Another has it for Jacob Weiser, a trapper-turned-miner who struck it rich in Baboon Gulch in the Florence Basin of Idaho in 1861. William Logan and his wife Nancy were the first white settlers in the vicinity of Weiser in 1863. They built a roadhouse in anticipation of the opening of Olds Ferry west of them on the Snake River across from Farewell Bend. In 1863, Reuben Olds acquired a franchise from the Territorial Legislature and began operating Olds Ferry.