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Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York
Vol. I, Biographical and Genealogical
The Genealogical Publishing Co., Buffalo; 1906-8

   [54-56]

        HOBART WEED, son of THADDEUS WEED, head of the great wholesale and
     retail hardware house of WEED & Co., stands in the front rank of
     Western New York merchants. He was born in Buffalo, and received a
     thorough education at schools in Buffalo and Toronto, and the Percival
     Classical School in Fredonia, N. Y., and REV. H. D. NOBLE'S School at
     Brookfield, Conn. After finishing his studies, Mr. WEED returned to
     Buffalo, where he gained his first experience in business in the store
     founded by his father, then being conducted by his brother, DE WITT C.
     WEED. After he had learned the business Mr. WEED with his brother
     formed the co-partnership of DE WITT C. WEED & Co. On the death of Mr.
     DE WITT C. WEED, in 1880, the firm became WEED & Co., with Mr. HOBART
     WEED as principal owner. In 1903 the house was incorporated as WEED &
     Company, with Mr. HOBART WEED as President. The concern is one of the
     foremost wholesale and retail hardware houses between New York City
     and Chicago. It celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in, 1893. One
     of Mr. WEED'S most noteworthy activities has been in advancing musical
     culture. The musical career of Mr. WEED began in his youth. While a
     student at school he organized and trained a choir. When he was only
     seventeen years old, the vestry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church placed
     the entire direction of the church music in Mr. WEED'S hands, and
     he has had charge of it ever since. He sang in the choir of St. Paul's
     as early as 1870, was made member of the Music Committee in 1873, and
     was chosen Chairman of that body in 1881. From early in life he has
     been interested in procuring for the Buffalo public the best vocal and
     instrumental talent for concerts, and has had an important part in,
     educating the popular taste in music in the Queen City. Among the more
     notable musical organizations and artists brought to Buffalo by Mr.
     WEED and his associates were the Theodore Thomas Orchestra, the Boston
     Symphony and New York Symphony Orchestras, the Pittsburg Orchestra and
     the Damrosch Opera Company; Melba, Nordica, Sembrich, Gadski,
     Christine Neilson and the great artists of the last generation. Con-
     nected with St. Paul's Episcopal Church all his life, Mr. WEED is a
     vestryman and one of its most prominent members. He is an active
     member of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, holds life memberships
     in the Fine Arts Academy and the Young Men's Association, and is a
     member of the Buffalo, ELLICOTT and Country Clubs, and of the Hardware
     Club of New York City. In 1870 Mr. WEED married Miss HARRIETT
     MONTEATH, daughter of WILLIAM and RHODA MONTEATH of Buffalo.  Mr. and
     Mrs. WEED have three children, EMILY M., SHELTON and WALTER IRVING
     WEED.

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