OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS - Marion Co., Ohio

Source:
A History of Northwest Ohio
A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress and Development
from the First European Exploration of the Maumee and
Sandusky Valleys and the Adjacent Shores of
Lake Erie, down to the Present Time
By Nevin O. Winter, Litt. D.
Assisted by a Board of Advisory and Contributing Editors
ILLUSTRATED
Vol. I & II
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1917

	DANA O. WEEKS, M. D. For a quarter of a century Doctor Weeks has enjoyed a high position as a physician and surgeon at Marion. Every influence and circumstance of his early life contrived to make Doctor Weeks a physician. His father was a distinguished member of that profession, as was also his maternal grandfather. The late Dr. Oliver W. Weeks, father of Dr. Dana O., died at his home in Marion January 11, 1903, at the age of sixty-one. He was born in Delaware County, Ohio, May 22, 1841, a son of Samuel C. and Jane (Cunningham) Weeks. Samuel Weeks was a native of Maryland and his wife of Pennsylvania. In 1830 the family came to Ohio, living in Licking County, and after 1838 in Delaware County. In 1867 Samuel Weeks and wife retired to Caledonia in Marion County, where both of them died. Dr. Oliver W. Weeks, one of a family of seven children, had only the limited advantages of the schools in his community during his youth. At the age of sixteen he was given a license as a teacher and taught school until the war. On August 13, 1862, he enlisted in Company A of the One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Infantry. A few weeks later he participated with his regiment in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, and received a severe wound in that engagement. The wound and subsequent exposure brought on severe illness, and he never afterwards enjoyed normal health, though he was permitted many years of useful service. He was for many months in a hospital and finally was made chief clerk in the medical director's office at Columbus, where he remained until honorably discharged January 19, 1864. He had become interested in medicine about the time he reached manhood. On leaving the army he located at Richwood, where he engaged in the drug business. He took his first course of medical lectures in Starling Medical College at Columbus, and his second course at Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1865. On February 29, 1876, he was granted the Ad Eundem degree by the Columbus Medical College. In 1872 he received the honorary degree Master of Science from Bethany College, West Virginia. On November 22, 1866, Doctor Weeks was appointed assistant assessor of District No. 12 of the Eighth Internal Revenue Collection District of Ohio. In the meantime he practiced in Delaware County, later in Caledonia, Marion County, and in 1878 moved to the City of Marion, where he was active in his profession until his death. He served as president of the Marion County Medical Society, was a member of the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and in 1893 was a representative to the Pan-American Medical Congress. For several years he was a member of the Marion City Council and was a stanch republican in his political activities. His church home was the First Christian Church at Marion. Fraternally he was a member of the Ohio Lodge No. 447, Free and Accepted Masons of Caledonia, the Chapter and Commandery at Marion ; a member of Canby Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum and was especially prominent in the Grand Army of the Republic, having been elected medical director of the Department of Ohio, and afterward was elected surgeon general of the Grand Army of the Republic. Much credit is due him for the erection of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Chapel in the Marion Cemetery. He was also surgeon of the Fifth Regiment, Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias, past brigadier surgeon of the Uniform Rank. The Masonic Lodge at Caledonia was named after this capable and distinguished physician. He was at one time member of the Board of Examiners for application to the United States Military Academy and the Annapolis Naval Academy for the eighteenth and thirteenth Ohio Congressional districts. He also served as pension examiner during the administrations of Harrison, McKinley and Roosevelt and during part of Cleveland's administration. On September 4, 1865, Dr. Oliver W. Weeks married at Tiffin, Ohio, Flora S. Dana, who survived her late husband and is still living in Marion. Her father Dr. Marcus Dana was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and for many years occupied a place of enviable prominence in the medical profession in Ohio. Dr. Dana O. Weeks, only child of the late Dr. Oliver W. Weeks and wife, was born at Caledonia in Marion County, Ohio, December 16, 1866. Doctor Weeks attended Wooster University 1887-8-9, and was a member of the class of 1891 and graduated in 1892 from the Ohio State Medical College at Columbus, there known as the Columbus Medical College. He was awarded the prize thesis on the Feeding of Infants. Much of his practice in later years has been in the specialty of diseases of women and children, and is medical examiner for a large number of life insurance companies. Doctor Weeks began practice at Marion in 1892. He has always kept in close touch with the profession, has attended the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital and the New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital, has been president of the Northwest Ohio Medical Association and for two terms was councillor of the Third District of the Ohio State Medical Association. He is a member of the Marion County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association. He belongs to the Phi Kappa Psi Library College fraternity. In 1893 Doctor Weeks married Miss Gertrude Douglas, a native of Ohio and daughter of James J. Douglas, who was a locomotive engineer and pulled the first train over the Chicago and Erie Railway, now the main line of the Erie Railway System. Doctor and Mrs. Weeks have two children: Oliver Douglas, now a member of the senior class of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and also affiliated with Phi Kappa Psi fraternity; and Frank D., aged fourteen, and now attending the Marion High School. In politics Doctor Weeks is a: stanch republican. He has served a few years as health officer of Marion, and after the expiration of his term, was appointed a member of the Board of Health having served continuously during both republican and democratic administrations, to the present time (1917). Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. III _ Publ. 1917 - Page 2262

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