Captain Byron Curtis Weston (April 9, 1832 – November 8, 1898) was a native of

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

who founded the Weston Paper Company in 1863 (which ceased to exist following its sale in 2008) and served as the 32nd

Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts is the first in the line to discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor following the incapacitation of the Governor of Massachusetts. The constitutional honorific title for the office is His ...

from 1880 to 1883. He came from an old

New England New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces ...

Congregationalist family of extraordinary wealth. In 1865, he married Julia Clark Mitchell, with whom he had ten children, including Julia Carolyn Weston, mother to the well known chef

Julia Child Julia Carolyn Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American cooking teacher, author, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, '' ...

. They lived in a mansion known as Westonholme, in

Dalton, Massachusetts Dalton is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Dalton is a transition town between the urban and rural portions of Berkshire County. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 6,330 at th ...

. Byron was elected to the

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in 1876. Weston was known for his gifts to the community, including the Grace Episcopal Church in his hometown and funds towards the debt incurred for the grading and draining of an athletic field and monies toward upkeep and a grandstand at

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...

. Weston received an honorary M.A. from Williams College in 1886 and the field, still used today, was named Weston Field in his honor. Byron's daughter Ellen Mitchell Weston married

Hale Holden Hale Holden (August 11, 1869 – September 23, 1940) was president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) from 1914 to 1918 and 1920 to 1929, and chairman of the board of directors for Southern Pacific Railroad from 1932 to 1939. H ...

in 1895.

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Byron Weston at Denver Post Online''New York Times'' obituarySouthworth buys Weston
1832 births 1898 deaths Papermakers Union Army officers Republican Party Massachusetts state senators Lieutenant Governors of Massachusetts 19th-century American politicians People from Dalton, Massachusetts Burials at Main Street Cemetery (Dalton, Massachusetts) 19th-century American businesspeople Military personnel from Massachusetts {{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub

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