Robert Doughty Weeks
Robert Doughty Weeks was an American banker who was a founder and president of the New York Stock Exchange.
Early life
Weeks was born on July 8, 1795, in Oyster Bay, New York. He was a son of James Huggins Weeks of Cove Hill in Oyster Bay and Miriam Weeks.His maternal grandparents were Elizabeth and Charles Doughty, and his paternal grandparents were Jotham Weeks and Sarah Weeks.
Career
A found and member of the New York Stock Exchange, Weeks served as president of the Exchange twice, first from 1834 to 1835, and second from 1836 to 1837, when he was succeeded by David Clarkson.Personal life
Weeks married twice. He married his first wife, Julia Hall Brasher, a daughter of Gasherie Brasher, on January 14, 1819. Together, they were the parents of:- John Abeel Weeks, who married Alice Hathaway Delano, a distant cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1849.
- Julia Mary Weeks, who married Henry Grant DeForest.
- Sarah Strong Weeks, who married Edwin Carnes.
- Benjamin Strong Weeks
- James Weeks, who married Kezia Seabury.
- Francis H. Weeks
Descendants
Through his eldest son John, he was a grandfather of Sarah Carnes Weeks, the first wife of Francis L. V. Hoppin, an architect and artist.Through his son James, he was a grandfather of Louis Seabury Weeks, an architect who designed buildings for International Telephone & Telegraph in Madrid, Bucarest, and New York.
Through his daughter Julia, he was a grandfather of Henry Wheeler DeForest, who became a railroad executive, capitalist and industrialist, and Robert Weeks DeForest, a lawyer, financier, and philanthropist. Weeks was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.