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the son of Daniel L. and Frances M. (Ed-
wards) Weeks. He attended school there
and also a military academy. At the lat-
ter he learned the habits of discipline that
were ever useful to him in his after life.
He was but a lad of thirteen years when
brought by his parents to Middletown,
Connecticut, and in that city he attended
the high school. He also attended private
and military schools. Daniel L. Weeks,
his father, fully appreciated the need of
equipping a young man for a business life,
and he sent his son to the most famous
commercial college of that day, Eastman's,
at Poughkeepsie, New York, from
which he graduated in 1872. The young
man had always taken an interest in good
literature and was very well read on many
subjects, so that at the age of eighteen he
entered upon life with a good business
education and a large fund of useful
knowledge. In 1874 he became assistant
to the superintendent of the Connecticut
State Hospital for the Insane at Middletown,
continuing for six years. Since
that time he has been a trustee of this in-
stitution and is chairman of the board.
In 1880 he became associated with George
A. Coles in a grain and milling business,
under the firm name of Coles & Weeks.
This association continued for fifteen
years and at the end of that time the public
and private obligations of Mr. Weeks
had become so great that he was obliged
to give his entire attention to them.
Mr. Weeks was the Representative
from Connecticut, appointed by Governor
Coffin and chairman of the commission to
the Cotton States Exposition at Atlanta,
Georgia, in 1895. ^^ served two years as
a member of the Common Council of
Middletown, and was the first President
of its Board of Trade. In 1904 he was a
Republican presidential elector and four
years later was elected Lieutenant-Governor
of Connecticut. There is only one
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other man in the State who was similarly
placed, and who was called upon to take
the important office of chief executive at
so short a notice. Governor Lilley died
April 21, 1909, but previous to this time
he had been in ill health and much of the
responsibility and cares of the office fell
on the capable shoulders of Lieutenant-
Governor Weeks. He did not hesitate or
attempt to shirk, but manfully shouldered
the burden and the manner in which he
carried on the duties of his office reflected
credit, not only on himself, but also upon
those who were responsible for placing
him in that office. He was honored by
Wesleyan University of Middletown, who
conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him
in 1909, and he is a trustee of that insti-
tution.
Mr. Weeks is a director and president
of the Middletown Savings Bank, director
of the Middlesex Mutual Insurance Asso-
ciation of Middletown, and president of
the Walter Hubbard Realty Company of
Meriden. He is a member of the University
Club of Middletown, the Republican
Club of New York, the New Eng-
land Society of New York, the Society of
Colonial Wars, and a charter member of
the Middlesex County Historical Society.
In 1912 and 1916 he was a delegate to the
National Republican conventions.
He married, November 4, 1874, Helen
Louise Hubbard, daughter of J. Warren
Hubbard of Middletown. They are at-
tendants of the Congregational Church.
In his business and public career Mr.
Weeks has achieved much, and has shown
the characteristics of a true man.
TUCKER, LeRoy Minor,
Fanner.
Among the industrious, progressive and
successful farmers of the Westfield dis-
trict, Mr. Tucker represents one of the