Biographies
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Samuel G. Weeks was born in Strafford County, N. H., in the year 1809. The most diligent inquiry has failed to learn anything else about his pre-collegiate history.
Mr Weeks entered Princeton College in 1834, being one of the "original twelve" who formed our Freshman Class at its very start. He was a member of the Whig Society, and was one of those oddities who turn up now and then in college life. He was, to begin, ten years older that a large majority of his classmates; was rather above average height, slender and flexible and had sandy hair and sandy complexion. His whol apperance and manner seemed to intimate that he had emerged from a school-house in Strafford County, which is on the borders of Maine, where he had been wielding a birchen sceptre during those ten years. One of our most vivid recollections of him is, that he always appeared in the Recitation Room wearing a shabby pair of slippers, turned down at the heel - the only pair of slippers that memory can recall as having ever appeared in that revered place. It seems but as yesterday that we saw those slippers and their wearer glide to the blackboard when he was called on to recite, while Prof. Dod's piercing black eyes, full of inquisitive humore, were fixed upon him. He was always grave, but always ready to be friendly when his friendship was sought. He glided in a quiet, cat-like way through the four years of his college course, and at its end his final grade was a little below the average.
After leaving college he taught somewhere one year; then re-appeard in Princeton, and entered the Theological Seminary, and spent in it three years, graduating regularly in 1842. Then going westward he entered upon the work of the sacred ministry in Michigan, where he labored one or two years as Stated Supply at Leonidas Presbyterian Church, near Cowan's Mills. In 1844 he was preaching as Stated Supply to Haw Patch Church, Wolf Lake, Indiana. In 1844-46 he preached as pastor to three churches - Wolf Lake, Haw Patch and Warsaw, in Indiana, being a member of the Presbytery of Fort Wayne.
Mr. Weeks died at Wolf Lake, Noble County, Ind., May 21, 1846, of an intermittent fever. His last prayer was: "Come, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." His wife's name was Mrs. Mary W. Weeks. Her maiden name, and the names of her parents, and whether they had any children, are no known.
Mr. Weeks was a plain man and a somewhat odd man, but a truly faithful and conscientious one. Doubtless he did his work well, and is receiving his reward.
Source: Biography of the Class of 1838 of the College of New Jersey at Princeton, N.J., By Princeton University. Class of 1838, William Edward Schenck, 1889, pp 150-151