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Lyman Horace Weeks
An American historian, genealogist, and editor, known for turning careful research into detailed books on family history, industry, and early motoring. His work ranges from Scottish lineage studies to one of the early biographical surveys of automobile pioneers.
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About the author
Born in 1851 and active into the early 20th century, Lyman Horace Weeks built a career around historical and genealogical research. Records from the New York Public Library describe him as an American genealogist, historian, and editor whose specialty was genealogical work and the writing and editing of monographs and serials.
Weeks wrote across a surprisingly wide range of subjects. He is associated with works such as Book of Bruce, studies of prominent New York families, A History of Paper-Manufacturing in the United States, 1690–1916, and Automobile Biographies, an early account of people involved in the invention and development of self-propelled road vehicles.
That mix of family history, industrial history, and biographical writing gives his work a distinctive character: careful, document-minded, and interested in how individual lives connect to larger historical changes. He died in 1942, leaving behind a body of writing that still appears in library, archive, and public-domain collections.