From History of Walworth County Wisconsin, Vol. II, by Albert Clayton 
Beckwith, Publ. 1912 - Page 1102-1104
 
WILBURG G. WEEKS.  Among the strong and influential citizens of Walworth 
county the record of whose lives have become an essential part of the history 
of this section, the gentleman whose name appears above has exerted a 
beneficial influence throughout the community where he resides.  His chief 
characteristics are keenness of perception, a tireless energy, honesty of 
purpose and motive and everyday common sense, which have enabled him not only 
to advance his own interests, but also to largely contribute to the moral and 
material advancement of the county.
 
Wilbur G. WEEKS, a well known business man of the town of Lyons, Wisconsin, 
was born in Spring Prairie township, this county, on March 23, 1859.  He is 
the son of Otis and Charlotte A. (VANTINE) WEEKS, and a grandson of Spencer 
WEEKS, one of our pioneers, a record of whose family appears elsewhere in this 
work.
 
The subject grew up in his home community and he attended high school at 
Elkhorn and the Whitewater Normal school.  In his youth he learned the 
printer's trade in the office of the Elkhorn Independent, and he was for a 
time engaged on the Waukesha Democrat and later on the Milwaukee Sentinel.  
When barely twenty-two years of age he became editor of the Delavan 
Republican, and he continued at the head of that paper for nearly twenty-eight 
years.  Even after he sold out he remained nearly a year longer.  Then he came 
to Lyons and organized the Lyons State Bank, which he opened for business on 
September 20, 1909, and he has served as cashier of this popular and thriving 
institution from the beginning in a manner that has won the hearty approval of 
the stockholders and patrons of the bank; in fact, the pronounced success of 
the bank has been due in no small measure to his influence and judicious 
management.
 
While at Delavan Mr. WEEKS held several positions of honor.  He was president 
of the Walworth county Press Association, and for several terms was secretary 
of the Wisconsin Republican Press Associating, taking a very active interest 
in both. He was very successful in the newspaper business, having started with 
only one boy as assistant, and when he left the field he was employing nine 
people.  He made money from the start, without any help from holding county 
and state offices, and by some he was called the Jay Gould of the Walworth 
County Press Association, and he ranked high among his compeers in the 
profession in this part of the state, being not only an able financier, but a 
very popular local writer and a leader in public improvements.
 
A year after leaving the newspaper field he engaged in the Texas land 
business, taking many people to the Lone Star state, locating them on farms, 
and made money out of it.
 
Mr. WEEKS is active in the affairs of the Methodist Episcopal church and has 
held various offices in the same and has for several years been superintendent 
of the Sunday school.  While at Delavan he was superintendent of the Aram Home 
for Superannuated Methodist Ministers.  He designed the three cottages and had 
them built, and had charge of the home, to which he gave his faithful 
attention.  He is treasurer of the school board at Lyons, which village he has 
been very active in improving, as he was in the upbuilding of Delavan.  He was 
instrumental in procuring allocation of the Bradley Knitting Mills at Delavan, 
also promoted the organization of the Delavan Assembly.  He is secretary of 
the Delavan Lake Improvement Association, an organization composed chiefly of 
Chicago men, among whom are Edward TIDDEN, Charles A. STEVENS, E. S. CONWAY, 
H.P. DARLINGTON and others well known in the world's affairs.  This 
organization purchased the water rights of Delavan lake for a consideration of 
eight thousand dollars, and which improves and cares for the lake as a summer 
resort.  Mr. WEEKS is still retained as secretary, although now living at 
Lyons.  He is showing his energetic public spirit at Lyons in endeavoring to 
induce various industries to locate there.  Few men are more generous and 
accommodating and his integrity is unquestioned.
 
Mr. WEEKS was married on December 24, 1910, to Mrs. Bertha (SKIFF) MEDBERRY, a 
lady of culture and refinement and the daughter of Benjamin F. SKIFF and wife, 
a prominent Elkhorn family, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work.  
Mrs. WEEKS is a native of Lyons and she and Mr. WEEKS attended school together 
in the seventies.  Her only son, Locksley MEDBERRY, is a member of the senior 
class at Elkhorn high school, 1912.  Mr. WEEKS has one son by a former 
marriage, Fred B. WEEKS, now living at Isleton near Sacramento, California.
 
Submitted by Carol