Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of the Great Lakes Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899 Page 5 LAWRENCE D. WEEKS who was chief engineer of the steamer J. C. Lockwood during the season of 1896, was born in Vermilion, Ohio, in 1869, his father being Captain Leeds H. Weeks, a well known vessel master. He attended school in Ver- milion until he was fourteen years of age, when he commenced sailing. From that time until twenty years of age, he studied in Cleveland every winter, first in the Spen- cerian Business College and then in the Case School of Applied Science. He con- tinued to live in Vermilion until he was twenty-two years of age, when he removed to Cleveland. The first vessel on which he sailed was the schooner B. F. Bruce, of which his father was master. Then he became wheelsman on the steamers Horace B. Tut- tle, Oregon, and J. C. Gilchrist in turn, later going on the Gilchrist as oiler while his father was master of her. Then for two years he was oiler on the steamer John Craig, receiving his papers as first assistant Page 6 engineer the winter he was twenty-one years of age. The following season he was sec- cond engineer of the Craig, serving during the ensuing winter as mechanical draughts- man for the Frontier Iron Works, of Detroit. During the season of 1892 he was second engineer of the Cumberland. While the World's Fair was in progress in Chicago, he was at the head of the mechanical depart- ment of the exhibit of Charles P. Willard & Co. The firm operated eight launches and yachts on the World's Fair grounds, and Mr. Weeks was responsible for the proper operation of all the machinery contained in them. After the close of the Fair, he became second engineer of the steamer A.P. Wright, holding this position through the season of 1894. He went as chief engineer of the steamer A. L. Hopkins, in the early part of the season of 1895, in July of that year becoming chief engineer of the steamer Olympia. That winter he was mechanical draughtsman for the Cleveland Ship Building Co., and in his leisure time he took up the study of electricty and theoretical mech- anics. He was chief engineer of the J. C. Lockwood during 1896. In January, 1896, Mr. Weeks was married to Miss Mary McAulay, of Cleveland. ==========================================================================