Nathan Herbert Weed

Nathan Herbert Weed

When Nathan was nine the family moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1877. They lived on Putnam Street. They lived at #244 in 1878, #254 in 1879 and #245 in 1882/3 when Nathan was 15. His father Samuel was an insurance underwriter in New York City. He attended Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, New York.

Nathan was 23 in 1891 when he and Frances Ten Eyck Walker were married in Ridgefield, New Jersey. She was 18 and born in Chicago in 1873 but living in Brooklyn by 1875 when her sister Nella Louise was born.

They lived in Brooklyn until about 1896. Newell was born there in 1892 and then son Walker in 1894. Nathan's business address was 62 Williams St. in New York City 1894/5 and then 50 Pine Street in 1895/6. The Pine street address was also his father's business address. Both were listed as being in insurance.

In 1898 their son Nathan was born in Kirkwood, MO just outside of St. Louis. In 1899 Nathan Sr. purchased the Chicago Independent and renamed it The Life Insurance Independent. In 1903 to 1906 Nathan is listed in Montclair New Jersey as a New York Publisher and lived at 6 James Street. From 1907- 1919 the residence was 21 Upper Mountain Avenue in Montclair, New Jersey. 

Frances Weed was a member of the Daughters of the Revolution. Nathan Sr was a member of the Sons of the Revolution, a Mason, a Knight Templer and a Shriner. 

World War I we find Newell going to France with the Essex Troop, National Guard Cavalry and soon after that became a captain in the new U.S. Army Tank Corps. Tragedy struck the family when early in 1918 Walker, a Navy Flying Corps. ensign, died after the crash of his hydroplane. 

France passed away in 1919 from breast cancer. Nathan later sold The Life Insurance Independent to the Rough Notes Company of Indianapolis and moved there to manage the merge publications till 1927.He lived on Long Island and helped his son Nathan purchase the family home in Merrick. In 1936 Nathan passed away in that house.