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Lyman Horace Weeks

Best known for wide-ranging historical and genealogical works, this prolific American writer explored everything from colonial newspapers and family lineages to horse racing and early automobiles. His books open a lively window onto the way people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries recorded history, status, and invention.

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Automobile Biographies

Automobile Biographies

by Lyman Horace Weeks

About the author

An American author and compiler of historical material, Lyman Horace Weeks wrote extensively on genealogy, biography, and social history. Surviving library records show a remarkably broad body of work, including Among the Azores (1882), The American Turf (1898), Automobile Biographies (1904), Book of Bruce (1907), and An Historical Digest of the Provincial Press (1908).

His books suggest a writer fascinated by how lives, families, and institutions are remembered. Some focus on prominent families and ancestry, while others trace the development of new industries and public culture, especially in the United States.

Although easily overlooked today, Weeks left behind a useful record of the interests of his era: genealogy, civic prestige, technological change, and the preservation of older sources. For listeners drawn to historical reference works and richly detailed compilations, his writing offers a snapshot of how earlier generations organized and narrated the past.