Bio of WESTON, Dr. Charles G. (b.1858), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 171-172
CHARLES G. WESTON, M. D.
Dr. Charles G. Weston, devoting his attention to the practice of surgery,
gynecology and obstetrics in Minneapolis, his ability being demonstrated in his
successful handling of many major operations, was born at Chelsea,
Massachusetts, April 25, 1858. His father, Seth Weston, was a well known
contractor and builder of Boston and the family home was maintained at Chelsea,
where Dr. Weston obtained his early education in the public schools, from which
he was graduated in 1875. He afterward entered the Harvard Medical School, from
which he was graduated two years later. At intervals before securing his M. D.
degree he acted as house physician of the Boston Lying-in Hospital and as
interne at the Boston City Hospital and thus gained broad and valuable practical
experience, as well as the theoretical knowledge obtained in college training.
He was graduated with the class of 1882 and then opened an office in Peabody,
Massa­chusetts, where he remained for six years, or until 1888, when he sought
the opportunities of the growing Northwest. Coming to Minneapolis, he was soon
established here on a sound professional basis and in 1891 he was appointed
assistant city physician, which position he filled for two years. On the
expiration of that period he was made city physician and so continued from 1893
until 1899. Later he was appointed chairman of the hospital committee of the
board of charities and corrections and he was a prime mover in securing the
present city hospital plant and put the institution on a modern basis, supplied
with the latest improved equipment and furnished with a visiting staff and a
training school for nurses. In all that he has undertaken Dr. Weston has been
actuated by a most progressive spirit and such is his determination and his
energies that he never stops short of the successful accomplishment of his
purpose. He occupies several staff positions in various hospitals of the city
and his private practice as well as his hospital work is of an extensive and
important character.
In 1884 Dr. Weston was united in marriage to Miss Ella C. Derby of Salem,
Massa­chusetts, and they have become the parents of two sons and two daughters:
Pearl E., who is now Mrs. L. W. Hall; Carlisle D., Seth Derby, and Stella H.
While Dr. Weston is interested in all that pertains to the general welfare and
cooperates in various plans and measures for the public good, he concentrates
the major part of his time and attention upon his professional interests and
through his membership in various societies he keeps in touch with the trend of
modern professional thought, progress and investigation at all times. He belongs
to the Hennepin County Medical Society, in which he has served as president; to
the Minnesota Academy of Medicine, of which he has also been president; to the
Minnesota State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and to the
American College of Surgeons. Through the interchange of thought and opinion at
the meetings of these bodies he is at all times conversant with the most
advanced methods and the latest professional researches, and he is ever actuated
by a most earnest desire to make his service of the greatest possible benefit to
his fellowmen.