J. Alden Weir and Branchville, A Pictorial Chronology
Sarah Olson


1852

Born to Robert Walter Weir and Susan Bayard Weir. Grows up in a large family of 16 children in the Hudson River highlands where father Robert Walter
Weir teaches drawing at West Point Military Academy.


Stereo view of Professor Weir’s house
at West Point


Robert Walter Weir,
Drawing of Julian and his mother,
c. 1853,
Weir Farm NHS

 


Julian (childhood photo),
Weir Farm NHS

Robert Walter and Susan Bayard Weir,
c. xx,
Weir Farm NHS1878