Santa Cruz County Biographies

THOMAS J. WEEKS

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        The subject of this sketch is a native of the town of Wayne, Kennebec 
County, Maine, and was born December 22, 1829. He received a fair schooling, and 
was apprenticed to the stone cutter's trade, which he thoroughly mastered before 
he was twenty years old. At the age of twenty he made up his mind to come to 
California, and accordingly sailed from Boston in the ship New Jersey, bound 
around Cape Horn for the Golden Gate. His voyage was long but uneventful. After 
arriving in San Francisco he went to the mines, but remained only a short time, 
and then came to Santa Cruz, where he engaged in farming, and then in the 
real-estate business.
        Mr. Weeks was united in marriage to Miss Maggie Morgan. The issue of 
this union has been a daughter, Clara, and son, Allie. The former is now the 
wife of Frank Stearns, of Los Gatos. The son is still a resident of Santa Cruz.
        Mr. and Mrs. Weeks have their home in a handsome residence on Walnut 
Avenue Hill, in Santa Cruz. Mr. Weeks is a member of the Society of California 
Pioneers.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891