“THE LATE WILLIAM J, WEEKS
A Sketch of a Eife’Both Active and
Unique.
Mr. William J. Weeks, ’44, died at
his home in Yaphank, Long Island, on
the morning of Sept. 2d, 1897, of can-
cer in the stomach. He was 77 years
old. The following sketch of Mr.
Weeks was prepared for the Class
Record sometime ago:
WILLIAM JONES WEEKS, son of James
Huggins Weeks and Susan Maria
(Jones) Weeks, was born in Oyster
Bay, Queen’s County, N. Y., on the
21st day of February, 1821. Until he
was seven years old, his father, who
was one of the promoters ot the Long
Island Railroad, and from 1847 to 1850
the President of the Company, resided
at Oyster Bay, which had been the
ancestral home from the time of his
progenitor, Francis Weeks, an immi-
grant from England about the middle
of the Seventeenth Century and one of
the early settlers of the township. He
was named for his grandfather, William
Jones; whose father, Samuel Jones,
often styled “the father of the New York
bar,” was the first comptroller of the
State, and whose great-grandfather,
Major Thomas Jones, after fighting
to uphold the fortunes of James II. at
the battle of the Boyne in 1690, came
two years later from Strabane, Ireland,
and settled at Fort Neck, South Oys-
ter Bay.
His father having moved to the town
of Brookhaven, his early education
was obtained from the district school
there until he was thirteen years old,
when he was sent to the Academy at
Southampton.
duced to the study of English grammar
and handled the parts. of speech in such
an extraordinary manner as to upset
the mental equilibrium of the assistant
teacher. After spending ‘a year at
Southampton, his studies were con-
tinued for about four years at the
academies of Bellport and Miller’s
Place. He then remained at home for
a year and half, principally engaged in
the labors of the farm and garden.
At this carly age he was a practical
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Here he was ‘first intro--
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surveyor and was occasionally em-
ployed in running lines and measuring
land. To carry out his wish for a
collegiate education, he was sent again
to Miller’s Place in 1839 and completed
his preparation.
An only child, he returned from Yale
to reside with his parents, who were
then settled on a large estate in Brook-
haven. That part of the town was
known as Millville, from certain mills
previously owned by his father and
others, but there being another village
in the State so called, the name, on
application to the government about
1845 for a post office, was changed, at
his suggestion, to Yaphank, the Indian
designation of a creek and neck of
land on the south side of the town.
During all the succeeding years, he had
been engaged in practical and scienti-
fic agriculture; first, in assisting his
father in the management of the pro-
perty, and subsequently in improy-
ing his inheritance. He cleared the
swamps, planted vineyards of cranber-
ries and grapes, was awarded many
first premiums for these fruits at the
annual fairs in Suffolk County and
received a prize from the Centennial
Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.
He was one of the first in the county
to engage extensively in cranberry
cultivation. When this industry first
began to excite much attention in
the neighborhood, he undertook to
prepare some of his land for the pur-
pose, but it was only by indomitable
perseverance and the liberal expendi-
ture of money, extended through a
series of years, that he brought the
business to the point of adequate re-
muneration. One product of the landed
estate has been cordwood, of which
one year he superintended the cutting
and sale of 2,000 cords. This was the
result, in 1862, of the most destructive
forest fires that ever occurred on Long
Island, which lasted for two days and in
its course swept over some 4,000 acres
of his own and his father’s woodlands;
the high price of fuel incident to the
war enabled him to recoup a large part
of the first loss.
From the year 1850 he had been an
extensive bee keeper, constructing an
improved hive for the management
of bees and making a special study of
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