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Guard of Connecticut, and for two years
served in the Home Guard. His club is
the Suburban, of Stamford.
Mr. Weed married (first) Isabella
Brennan, daughter of Owen W. Bren-
nan, at one time charity commissioner of
New York City. He married (second),
June 23, 1900, Mary E. Horan, daughter
of James J. Horan, of Stamford, who was
born July 21, 1874.
(IV) Herbert Stanley Weed, son of
Edgar S. and Emily (Bishop) Weed, was
born in Stamford, Connecticut, August
27, 1870. He was educated in the public
schools, and after eight years in the employ
of Yale & Towne Manufacturing
Company, in 1894 entered the Young
Men's Christian Association work as as-
sistant secretary of the Stamford Asso-
ciation. The following year he went to
Sewickley, Pennsylvania, as general sec-
retary. In 1900 he became general secretary
of the Young Men's Christian Association
in Stamford, Connecticut, where
he remained until 1910, largely increasing
the membership and vigorously prosecut-
ing association activities, attesting the
value of his leadership, and in that year
he took up the duties of general secre-
tary in Richmond, Indiana. In 1913 he
resigned from the Young Men's Chris-
tian Association, and was appointed special
agent of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society of the United States, in
Richmond, continuing until the entry of
the United States into the World War.
He was sought for overseas service in
the Young Men's Christian Association,
and for twenty months was a part of the
"Y" organization with the American Expeditionary
Forces in France, his previous
association experience and friendly un-
derstanding of men of all walks of life
enabling him to serve efificiently and helpfully
in the great work accomplished by
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the Young Men's Christian Association
in France.
Upon his return to the United States in
July, 1919, Mr. Weed became associated
with his brother, Edgar S. Weed, in real
estate and insurance operations in Stamford.
Mr. Weed and his family are mem-
bers of the Presbyterian church. He retains
an active interest in Young Men's
Christian Association afTairs, although
not as an executive, and was a supporter
of the movement that gave Stamford its
splendid new Young Men's Christian As-
sociation building.
Herbert S. Weed married Elma A.
Law, of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and
they are the parents of three children: i.
Robert L., was a second lieutenant of ar-
tillery, receiving his commission in Saumur,
France. 2. William D., a member
of the "Columbia Unit" in the United
States during the World War. 3. Ruth
Bishop.
WEED, Richmond,
liawyer, Man of Affairs.
Among the early Colonial families there
is none which achieved a more honorable
record in early Connecticut history than
the Weed family. Its members have been
worthy citizens, brave soldiers, and prominent
men for many generations. The
family was founded by Jonas Weed
(q.v.).
The venerable home of this ancient race
is still standing on the Boston post road
in Darien. It is the old styled structure
of about two hundred years ago and was
built to replace the first house built by
Jonas Weed, which was destroyed by
fire. The original chimney escaped the
general demolition, and the house now
standing was built around it, thus pre-
serving it as the center of this dwelling.