Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Weeks, George S. 1809 - 
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GEORGE S. WEEKS, superintendent of the boat yard of P. S. Davidson, at North 
La Crosse; has been in his present position since 1866. He was born in New 
York City in 1809; son of John Anthony Weeks, who died while George S. was in 
infancy. He left New York City in 1828, and engaged in ship-building in 
Jefferson Co., N. Y., about nine years; was also in the same business in 
Buffalo, N. Y., and Detroit, Mich., for several years, and went from there to 
Chicago, where he remained till 1862, then went to Savannah, Iowa, and had 
charge of the floating stock of the W. U. R. R. at that place till 1866, when 
he came to La Crosse. While in Chicago, he built the dry dock there, and since 
built the steamboat "George S. Weeks," of which he was part owner.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 806.

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