WEED
WEED
nianded all the artillery of the 2d division
(Sykes) of the otli corps under Fitz John Porter,
and at Antietani in the Maryland campaign. He
participated in the march to Falmouth, Va.; was
chief of artillery corps, Dec. 3, 1863-Jan. 23, 1863,
and on leave of absence, Jan. 23- April 18, 1863.
He fought at Chancellorsville, May 2-4, 1863;
was in command of the artillery brigade of the
5th corps (General Meade), May 10-June 6, and
on June 6, 1863, was commissioned brigadier-
general. U.S.V. He was given command of the
3d brigade. 2d division (Ayres) of the 5th corps
under General Sykes. His corps arrived at Get-
tysburg about 7 a.m., July 2; was first stationed
in reserve on the right near where the Baltimore
pike crosses Rock creek, and later ordered to take
position on the left of the line. During Long-
street's vigorous attack. Weed's brigade, with
Vincent's, was detached from the 5th corps and
hurried up Little Round Top. When they
reached the summit the Confederate troops were
ascending the other side of the hill and in a
bloody hand to hand struggle Vincent was mor-
tally wounded, and Hazlett, the artillery captain
and General Weed were killed. Weed died on
the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863.
WEED, Thurlow, journalist, was born in Cairo. Greene county. N.Y., Nov. 15, 1797; son of Joel and Mary (Ells) Weed; grandson of Nathan Weed, a soldier in the Continental army, and a descendant of Jonas Weed, who emigrated from England in 1630 and settled in Stam- ford, Conn. Thurlow Weed removed with his parents to Cats- kill, N.Y., in 1799, where he attended school in 1803, and ob- tained employment in a local tavern, and later shipped as cabin boy on a sloop trading between Cat- skill and New York. In 1808 he was era- ployed in the office of the Catskill Re- corder, but in Jlarch of that year his family removed to Cincinnatus, Cortland county, N.Y., and he engaged in clearing land and in farm- ing. In 1809, the family having removed to the vicinity of Onondaga, N.Y., he was employed in an iron smelting furnace; in 1811, was associ- ated with the Cortland county Lr//uc. and in 1812, with the Caynga rounty Tnann and in the print- ing office of Seward and Williams. Utica. N.Y. He enlisted as a private in a New York regiment in 1812. and served on the northern frontier un-
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til 1815, when he removed to New York city, and
worked as a journeyman printer. In 1817 he be-
came an assistant editor of the Albany Register
and contributed political articles to the columns
of that paper. He was married, April 26, 1818,
to Catharine, daughter of Moses and Clarissa (de
Montford) Ostrander of Cooperstown, N.Y., and
they removed to Norwich, Chenango county,
where he established the Republican Aiji-icitJ-
tiiristf. He founded the Onondaga County Re-
imblican at Manlius, N.Y., in 1821: removed to
Rochester in 1822, where he became junior
editor of the Telegraph, and through its columns
advocated the policy of DeWitt Clinton and John
Q. Adams. In 1825 he purchased the Telegraph
from Everard Peck, and in 1826 Robert Martin
became his partner. During the autumn of 1826,
on the abduction of Capt. William Morgan for
publishing secrets of freemasonrj-, Mr. Weed, in
an editorial, favored his restoration, which sug-
gestion caused many masons who were his best
patrons to stop the paper. He accordingly as-
signed his interest in the paper to Martin, and
founded the Anti-Mason Enquirer. On March
22, 1830, he established the Albany Evening
JoHJ'JioZ in which he opposed the administration
of Andrew Jack.son and the nullification act.
He was active in securing the nomination of Wil-
liam Henrj' Harrison for President in 1836 and
1840; supported Henry Clay in the national conven-
tion of 1844; Winfield Scott in 1852; John C. Fre-
mont in 1856; and William H. Seward in 1860. He
was associated with Seward and Horace Greeley
in the overthrow of the Democratic political or-
ganization known as the Albany regency, and for
many years he was the acknowledged leader of
the Whig party in New York. He was one of the
founders of the Republican part}', and on the
nomination of Abraham Lincoln, notwithstanding
his disappointment that Seward failed to receive
the nomination, he supported his candidacy and
his administration. In 1861 he was sent to
Europe in company with Archbishop Hughes
and Bisliop Mcllvaine to influence the foreign
governments to support the United States govern-
ment. He resigned the editorial control of the
Albany Evening Journal in 1865, and in 1867 be-
came editor of the Commercial Advertiser, in
New York city, which position he held till 1868,
when ill health caused his retirement. He was a
member of the printing house of Weed and
Parsons, which in 1839 was awarded the contract
for state iirinting, and lield it under successive
Whig and Republican administrations. He is the
author of: Letters from Abroad (1866); Reminis-
cences (1876), and an autobiography edited by his
daughter, Harriet A. Weed (1882), and completed
by his grandson, Thurlow Weed Barnes (1884).
He died in New York city, Nov. 22, 1882.
