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- Stricken ill at the conclusion of a speech late yesterday afternoon before the Physics Journal Club at the University, Arthur J. Weed, 75 of Seventeenth Street, assistant physics laboratory instructor and precision instrument maker for the scientific laboratories, died.
Immediately following his lecture on "Some Experiments With Soft Cast Iron Magnets", while the meeting of the Society was still in order, Mr. Weed collapsed in the journal room of the Rouss Physical Laboratory and died before assistance could be
summoned.
Mr. Weed was born in Ellisburg, NY June 5, 1860. In early life he was connected with the firm of A. J. Weed & Co. instrument makers from 1910 to 1920, was instrument maker for the U. S. Weather Bureau in Washington, D. C. He was the inventor of the
Weed Strong Motion Seismograph, and designed the seismograph at the Rouss Physical Laboratory at the University, in 1925.
At the time of his death he was the treasurer of the eastern section of the Seismological Society, and member of the Virginia Academy of Science.
Mr. Weed was an outstanding photographer. His duties in the Medical School consisted mainly of photographing subjects for the slides in the histology laboratory, and he will be greatly missed in that department, it was declared.
Mr. Weed was the first person to record the earthquake which shook the city and county on Thursday last week. The quake was thought to have been centered about the University district.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Emma B. Weed, he is survived by one son, Harold L. Weed. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
Published:April 16, 1936 The Daily Progress
Charlottesville, Virginia
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1860 - 1936 (75 years)