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WEEKS, Edwin Lord, artist, was born in Boston, Mass.; son of Stephen and Mary (Lor<l) Weeks, and a descendant of Leonard Weeks, one of a Roj'alist colony which left England under the direction of Capt. John Smith for Jamestown, Va. Weeks and others landed at Greenland, N.H., in 1639, where he built the brick garrison house still standing in 1903. Edwin L. Weeks studied art under Gerome and Bonnat in Paris, where he opened a studio, exiiibiting at many of the Paris salons and receiving honor- able mention, 1885, and a medal in 1889. He was also awarded first-class medals at the Universal exposition in Paris, 1889, and at Munich and Dresden, 1897; the grand diploma of honor from Berlin and a gold medal from the Philadelphia Art club, 1891, and a special medal and prize at the Empire of India exhibition, London, 1896, He was a member of the Paris advisory committee for the World's Columbian exposition, 1893, and of the permanent committee of direction for tiie Exposition of H.S.H., the Princess of Monaco; was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France, 1896; an Officer of the order of St. Michael of Bavaria, 1898; a member of the Paris Society of American Painters, and corresponding member of the Secession of Munich. His can- vases, many of them depicting scenes in the Orient, where he traveled extensively, include: Tlie Last Voyage, a souvenir of the Ganges (1885); Departure for the Hunt, India (1888), now in the Corcoran gallery, Washington, D.C.; An Open Air Restaurant at Lahore (1889); The Pearl Mosque At Agra, and A Rajah ofJodhpur (1891). the last- named picture purchased by the Emperor of Germany; The Three Beggars of Cordova, in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Packing the Caravan; Early Morning in Persia (1897); Lidian Barbers at Saharanpur (1897); Ispahan (1901), solicited for the Museum of the Luxem- bourg; The Porter of Bagdcd, purchased by the Cercle Volney of Paris; larger motive of same (1908), and The Princess of Bengal (1903). He is also the author of: From the Black Sea Through Persia and India (1895), and of contributions to magazines.

WEEKS, Stephen Beauregard, histoiical writer, was born in Pasquotank county, N.C., Feb. 2, 1865; son of James Elliott and Mary Louisa (Mullen) Weeks: grandson of John and Elizabeth (Elliott) Weeks, and of James and Mary Ann (McDonald) Mullen, and a descendant of Thomas Weeks, "gentleman," '•schoolteacher," who first appeared in North Carolina in 1726. and later became high sheriff, member of the colonial assembly and justice of the quorum. The Mul- lens are Huguenots, while it is believed that the McDonalds are from the McDonalds of Glencoe. He was graduated from the University of North X. — 23

Carolina, A.B., 1886, A.M., 1887, Ph.D., 1888, en- gaging as tutor at the college, 1887-88; and from Jolms Hopkins university, Ph.D., 1891; was pro- fessor of liistory and political science in Trinity college, Durham, N.C., 1891-93, and a fellow by courtesy at Johns Hopkins, 1893-94. He was twice married: first, June 12, 1888, to Mary Lee, daughter of Joseph Bonaparte and Clara (Scar- borough) Martin, and great-granddaughter of Gen. Joseph Martin of Virginia; and secondly, June 28, 1893, to Sallie Mangum, daughter of Martin Washington and Sallie Alston (Mangum) Leach, and granddaughter of Senator Willie P. Mangum. He was a specialist in educational history and associate editor of the annual "Re- port of the U.S. Commissioner of Education," 1894-99, and since December, 1899, an educator in the U.S. Indian School service at Santa Fe, Ne%v Mexico. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Wake Forest college, N.C.. 1903; was secretary of the North Carolina Historical society, 1887-88; a founder of the Southern His- tory association, and a member of its administra- tive council and publication committee in 1903. His private collection of materials relating to North Carolina and the south exceeds 3000 books and pamphlets, and his publications include; Tlie Press of North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century (1891); Religious Development in the Province of North Carolina (1893); Church and State in North Carolina (1893); General Joseph Martin and the War of the Revolution in the West (1894); A Bibliography of Historical Liter- ature of North Carolina (1895); Libraries and Literature in North Carolina (1896); Southern Quakers and Slavery (1896); Beginnings of the Common School System in the South (1898); Bibliography of Confederate Text-Books (1900), and many other papers on historical and educa- tional subjects; also: Index to the Noi'th Carolina Colonial and State Records; Life and Times of Willie P. Mangum, and a Bibliography of North Carolina, in preparation in 1903.

WEEMS, Mason Locke, biograplier, was born probably in Maryland; according to some authori- ties in Dumfries, Va., in 1760. His boyhood was pas«ed in the family of a Sir. Jenifer of Charles county, Md. He pursued theological studies in London, England, after 1781; was admitted to holy orders in the Established church, and on liis return was rector of Pohick churcli. Mount Ver- non parish, Va., until about 1800. when he became an agent for Matthew Carey, book-publisher, con- tinuing to preach, however, in pulpits of every denomination while on his travels. He publislied the tracts: Philanthropist: Drunkard's Looking- Glass; God's Revenge Against Murder; God's Revenge Against Adultery, and Hymen's Recruit- ing Sergeant, ami the biographies of George