Herman B. Weeks, agent for the Pennsylvania Line at Redkey and for thirteen years a prominent factor in the general commercial and industrial life of that city, is a Buckeye by birth, was reared in Michigan and is a Hoosier by choice, having been a resident of this state since the year following the attainment of his majority. Mr. Weeks was born in Ashland county, Ohio, April 23. 1870, and is a son of Schuyler and Emily (Beattie) Weeks, whose last days were spent in Michigan. Schuyler Weeks also was born in Ashland county, Ohio, a member of one of the old families in that part of the state, and early became engaged in the lumber and saw-milling business. In 1874, he disposed of his interests in Ohio and moved with his family to Eaton county, Michigan, where for some time he was engaged in saw-milling and where he also became the owner of a good farm. On this farm he and his wife spent their last days, her death occurring in 1914 and his in 1916.
Herman B. Weeks was but four years of age when his parents moved to Michigan and he was reared on the farm there. He supplemented the schooling received in the local schools by a course in a business college in New York and then about 1889, took up railroading. He became a competent railway clerk as well as a telegraph operator and was employed at various places on the Pennsylvania railroad until in 1908, when he was sent to Redkey as agent in the office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at that place, and he has ever since occupied that position, one of the best known railway agents on the line. In 1891, the year before his arrival at Redkey, Herman B. Weeks was united in marriage to Dorothy Wirt, who was born in Michigan, and to this union have been born seven children, namely: Ralph, a conductor on the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern railroad, who married Edna Dillon, of Albany, Ind., and has two children, Herman A. and Paul; Walter B., a veteran of the World war, who is connected with the operations of the Reo Automobile Company; Ind., who married I. H. O'Brien, of Hartford City, Ind., and has one child, a son, Robert; and Dorothy, Claude, George and Harry, who are at home. Mr. and Mrs. Weeks are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and are Republicans. Mr. Weeks is a Freemason, a member of the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons at Redkey, and is a charter member of the lodge of the Modern Woodmen at LaCrosse, Ind.
SOURCE: Milton T. Jay, M.D., History of Jay County Indiana, Historical Publishing Co., Indpls. 1922, Vol. II, pp. 132-133. Transcribed by Eloine Chesnut