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well directed, persistent effort, along
sound business lines. He is a member of
the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, the
Hartford Yacht Club and Hartford Auto-
mobile Club, in all of which he is inter-
ested and active.
Mr. Peck married, February 20, 1867,
Susan M. Root, daughter of Horatio Root,
of Hartford. Mr. and Mrs. Peck are the
parents of three sons: 1. Edward A., of
Rocky Hill, Connecticut ; married Cora
Hall; six children: Helen Josephine,
married Justus Churchhill, of Rocky Hill,
Connecticut, and has a daughter, Justina
Hall Churchhill; Wallace Hall; Frederick
Hall, now a member of Three Hun-
dred and First Machine Gun Battalion,
at Camp Devens, Ayer, Massachusetts
Susan Elizabeth; Edna, and Marguerite
Peck. 2. Harry H., married (first) Alice
Grow, of Chicago, and their children are:
Harold Windsor, now a member of Three
Hundred and Third Machine Gun Bat-
talion, Company B, Camp Devens, Ayer,
Massachusetts ; Everett Lawrence, and
Alice W. Peck. He married (second)
Ethel Bliss, of Middletown. Connecticut,
by whom he has three children : Edna,
Henry and Charles. 3. Theodore, born
March 15, 1875, in Waterbury, Connecticut,
is now a resident of New Haven, Connecticut
; he was educated in the grammar
and high schools of Hartford, and in
1896 entered his father's employ ; later
he went to Africa in the employ of the
Royal Gold Mining Company, remaining
some time, when returning to Hartford,
he married Dell Tracy and has one
daughter, Margarie.
WEEKS, William H.,
Remarkable Educator.
The name of Weeks in some of its various
forms is of great antiquity in England
and is borne by families between
some of whom there is no connection.
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The early immigrants to this country
bearing the name appear to have been
mainly if not entirely from the south of
England and were probably from its gen-
try and yeomanry, of Norman origin.
They were generally men of enterprise,
some being also men of culture and of
means, who at once assumed positions of
honor and influence.
A worthy descendant of this honorable
family, William H. Weeks, was born November
1, 1829, in Yorktown, Westches-
ter county, New York, the son of Jeremiah
and Charlotte (Coovert) Weeks.
He was a descendant of Francis Weeks,
who came from England in 1635 and
settled at Salem, Massachusetts. He
removed the following year to Providence,
Rhode Island, where he formed
one of the band of sympathizers of Roger
Williams. He held the office of secretary
of the Colony, and removed a second
time, in 1640, to New York, where he
became a joint proprietor of Oyster Bay
in 1650. He died prior to 1687. His
wife's name was Elizabeth Luther.
Daniel Weeks, their grandson, was
born December 3, 1735, and died at Ship
Harbor, Nova Scotia, December 29, 1852,
at the great age of one hundred and seventeen
years. He was a Loyalist, and was
obliged to remove to Ship Harbor for that
reason. He was the father of twenty-one
children, of whom the second son was
David Weeks, who lived at Oyster Bay,
and was the father of Henry Weeks, who
resided at different times at White Plains,
New York City, Cortland and Yorktown.
He died June 5, 1859, aged one hundred
and one years. His wife was Sarah
Higgins, of White Plains, Westchester
county, New York. They were the par-
ents of Jeremiah Weeks, born March 25,
1795, and died January 1, 1880. He was
a deacon of the Yorktown Baptist
Church for sixty-one years, a remarkable
record. He married a widow, Mrs. Char-