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etter start, and Mr. Weed has added his
name to this group. In accordance with
his family tradition, he made his start in
life on his own responsibility, leaving
home and coming East. He remained
with his grandparents for about a year,
in Monmouth county. New Jersey, then
went to Portchester, New York, and began
to learn the trade of mason. When
about seventeen years old he located in
Stamford, Connecticut, and followed his
trade as a journeyman. He was industrious
and economical, but what is more
important, perhaps, he never was satisfied
with a piece of work unless it was
completed in a workmanlike manner. In
1876 he went into business for himself,
he had not only his savings with which
to build his success, but an established
reputation for excellence of work. In his
long career Mr. Weed has built innumerable
structures, many of them of vital
significance to the industrial and business
world of Stamford and vicinity. Noteworthy
among these are the Blickensder-
fer Typewriter factory, and several buildings
for the Yale & Towne Manufactur-
ing Company. Included in his earlier
work were the Irving block, since torn
down ; the Hurlburt block, the first five-
story building to be erected in Stamford,
which stood at what is now No. 107 At-
lantic street; and the Adams four-story
block, where the Town Hall now stands.
He also built many school houses in
Stamford and neighboring towns. In
January, 1910, he retired from active
business. He is still hale and hearty, and
is keenly interested in every phase of pub-
lic progress. He has always borne his
share in public responsibility, but has always
been reluctant to enter the political
game. He is afifiliated with the Repub-
lican party, and served a term of six
years as a member of the Park Board.
For some years Mr. Weed was a director
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of the Blickensderfer Typewriter Company,
and is now a director of the Stamford
Realty Company. He is an honored
member of Union Lodge, No. 5, An-
cient Free and Accepted Masons ; of Rittenhouse
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons;
of Washington Council, Royal and Select
Masters ; of Clinton Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Norwalk; and a
member of Pyramid Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order Noblesof the Mystic Shrine,
of Bridgeport.
Mr. Weed married Emily Morrell,
daughter of Elijah P. Morrell, a prominent
public ofiicial of Portchester, New
York. They have one child, Harry E., of
Lakewood, Ohio, who married Minnie E.
Wilson, of Stamford, and has two children,
Harriet and Wilson. Mr. Weed
has long been identified with the Method-
ist Episcopal church, as was his wife,
who passed away December 25, 1919, and
he has always been active in every movement
that made for the public good.
WEED, Edgar S.,
Real Estate and Insarance.
One of the oldest families in Fairfield
county, Connecticut, and one which has
played an important part in the upbuild-
ing of that county, particularly in the city
of Stamford, Connecticut, is the Weed
family, represented in the present gener-
ation by Edgar S. Weed, of Stamford.
(I) Hezekiah (2) Weed, great-grand-
father of Edgar S. Weed, was born July
26, 1756, and was a son of Hezekiah (i)
Weed, and traced descent to the emigrant,
Jonas Weed, through his son, Jonas (2)
Weed. Hezekiah (2) Weed married,
October 28, 1779, Rebecca Knapp, and
they were the parents of Alanson, of
whom further.
fll) Alanson Weed, son of Hezekiah
(2) and Rebecca (Knapp) Weed, was