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De Forest (ROBERT WEEKS an FOREST ROBERT)

ROBERT WEEKS, an FOREST, ROBERT WEEKS, an born in New York City in 1848. He graduated from Yale in 1870 and from the Columbia Law School in 1872. After studying abroad he was admitted to the bar in 1871 and engaged in the practice of law, first with his father and afterward with his sons. He was a director in many financial institutions and was prominently identified with charitable work in New York City. He was president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1913. In 1900 he was chairman of the New York State Tenement House Commission and in 1903 was president of the National Conference of Charities and Correction of Atlanta. He was vicepresident of the American Red Cross.