Captain Bryron Weston

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Captain Byron Curtis Weston (April 9, 1832 – November 8, 1898) was a native of Massachusetts 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 from 1880 to 1883.

He came from an old New England 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. They lived in a mansion known as Westonholme, in Dalton, Massachusetts. 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. 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 married Julia Mitchell; their daughter Ellen Mitchell Weston married Hale Holden in 1895.

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Ref #1 - "Appetite for Life - the Biography of Julia Child" by Noel Riley Fitch, Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997

Page 7: "The vast home, (called Westholme) which no longer exists, was maintained by servants, nurses, a governess, a coachman, and cooks, and was supported by the Weston Paper Company, which Byron founded in 1863. Byron Weston traced his family back to the eleventh century in England; the first Weston in the New World was Edmund of Plymouth Colony. With lineage and money, Byron was a leading citizen of Berkshire County."

Page 7: "He served three terms (with Governor John D. Lang) as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts."

Sources

1. APPETITE FOR LIFE The Biography of Julia Child By Noel Riley Fitch

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