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Edward Payson Weston was born in Providence, R. I, the son of Silas and Maria (Gaines) Weston. His father was a merchant, not too successful, and his mother was a novelist and magazine writer, author of Kate Felton (1859) and several other books fairly popular in New England at that time. The family removed to Boston.
In Boston Edward attended the Adams School.
He obtained employment in 1853 selling candy, magazines, and newspapers on the Boston, Providence & Stonington Railroad. The following year he plied that same trade on the New York-Fall River steamers and in 1855 he was an apprentice to a jeweler for six months. From that he turned to join a circus as a drummer in the band but was struck by lightning and took it as a warning to quit that mode of life. As a child and youth he was sickly and underweight and took to rambling about Boston and vicinity, doing odd jobs and selling his mother's novels. It was through walking from house to house, and from town to town, that he improved his health and developed himself as a pedestrian. His first effort at long-distance walking came as a result of a wager with a friend that he could walk from Boston to Washington, D. C. , 478 miles by road, in ten consecutive days. He started on Feburary 22, 1861, and planned to be in Washington in time to witness the first inauguration of President Lincoln. He reached the capital on March 4, too late to witness the inaugural ceremony, but the newspapers made much of his performance, especially in view of his youth and rather frail build. He published privately an account of this trip under the title The Pedestrian (1862). Newspaper accounts state that he was a Union spy during the Civil War but there appears to be no official evidence to substantiate the report. After the war he became a messenger boy and later a police reporter for the New York Herald and, in lieu of telephones, his endurance and speed as a walker gave him the edge on his competitors. In 1867 he set out definitely to capitalize his ability; he walked from Portland, Me. , to Chicago, Ill. (1, 326 miles), in twenty-six days. This was his first real professional venture. Forty years later he duplicated this trip and bettered his own record by twenty-nine hours. He walked in races of all kinds, including the six-day go-as-you-please races in the old Madison Square Garden in New York City and the Astley Belt walking race in Agricultural Hall, London, a contest that he won in 1879. In 1883 he toured England on foot, walking fifty miles a day for one hundred days, and in addition delivered temperance lectures at each stopping-place for a church society. He once walked one hundred measured miles in Westchester County, N. Y. , in twenty-two hours, nineteen minutes, and ten seconds. In 1909, when he was seventy years of age, he walked from New York to San Francisco (3, 895 miles) in 104 days and seven hours. The following year he made the return journey over a shorter route (3, 600 miles) in about seventy days. He was a picturesque figure with his white hair, white mustache, velvet tunic, high gaiters, and small cane or "swagger stick. " In 1927 he was struck by a taxicab, became partially crippled, and lived for two more years. He was rescued from poverty in his old age by Anne Nichols, the author of "Abie's Irish Rose. " He was buried in St. John's Cemetery, Middle Village, New York City.
He was largely responsible for the rise in popularity of the sport in the 1860s and 1870s. His life story has been told in the 2012 biography, A Man in a Hurry, described by U. S. sports writer Brian Phillips as "a spectacularly entertaining book. " His career biography, "Weston, Weston, Rah-Rah-Rah!", was also published in 2012.
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He married Maria Weston, from whom he had been separated for many years. They had two daughters.
