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tionalist. Mr. Weed married, October ii,
1859, Nellie S. Jones, daughter of David
W. and Mary Cabor (Newell) Jones, the
former of Boston, and the latter of Framingham,
Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs.
Weed were the parents of the following
children: i. Walter Harvey, bom May
I, 1862. 2. Nathan Herbert, born August
I, 1868. 3. Edward Franklin, of whom
further.
(VIII) Edward Franklin Weed, son of
Samuel Richard and Nellie S. (Jones)
Weed, was born January 20, 1870, in St.
Louis, Missouri. When he was about six
years of age his parents removed to
Brooklyn, New York, and Edward F. re-
ceived his education in the public schools
of that city. Following his courses there,
he became a student in the Connecticut
Agricultural College in Storrs, Connecti-
cut. Mr. Weed then became a special
student of Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale College in microscopic botany and
entomology. Mr. Weed has never lost
his interest in his natural science work,
and spends much of the leisure time from
his business in this work. Mr. Weed's
hobby is stamp collecting. For forty
years he has been collecting stamps, specializing
at different times in the stamps
of certain countries. At the present time
Mr. Weed is making a specialty of Brit-
ish Colony stamps and has a valuable col-
lection of them. The social activities of
Mr. Weed are many. He is a thirtysecond
degree Mason ; he affiliates with
Old Well Lodge, No. 108, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons ; Butler Chapter, No. 38,
Royal Arch Masons ; Clinton Commandery.
Knights Templar ; Lafayette Consistory
; and Pyramid Temple, Mystic
Shrine, of Bridgeport. He is secretary
of the local Red Cross Association, and a
member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church,
of Noroton, of which he is junior warden.
Mr. Weed married (first) Mrs. Louise
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(Lane) Colyer, daughter of Adolphus and
Eliza Jane (Stearns) Lane. He married
(second), July 18, 1912, Isabel M. Weed,
daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth (Dor-
Ion) Weed, of New York City, and Macon,
Georgia, the former a son of Joseph
and Louise (Weed) Weed.
WEED, Hanford Smith.
Lairyer, Legislator.
In the annals of Fairfield county frequent
mention is found of the Weed
family. This family is not only among
the oldest families of that county, but
also among the most prominent.
(II) John Weed, eldest son of Jonas
Weed (q. v.), purchased land in Stam-
ford, Conn., April 20, 1657, and died in
1688. He married, in 1665, Joanna West-
cott, daughter of Richard Westcott.
(III) Daniel Weed, son of John and
Joanna (Westcott) Weed, was born February
II, 1669. He married and was the
father of Abraham, of further mention.
(IV) Abraham Weed, son of Daniel
Weed, was born August 18, 1680. He
married and was the father of Abraham,
of further mention.
(V) Abraham (2) Weed, son of Abraham
(i) Weed, was born in that part of
Stamford now included in New Canaan,
January 11, 1727-28. He married Naomi
Pond.
(VI) Enos Weed, son of Abraham (2)
and Naomi (Pond) Weed, was born
March 14, 1731-32. The Christian name
of his wife was Mary.
(VII) Lieutenant Seth Weed, son of
Enos and Mary Weed, was born January
30, 1752. He was a member of the First
Company, 5th Regiment, under Captain
David Waterbury (later colonel), and
Lieutenant Jonathan Whitney, in May,
1775. This regiment marched to New
York under General Wooster. Seth Weed