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<span style="color:#006400">'''WESTON, Benjamin Price'''</span> (1892-1947), son of Orin and Sarah Weston, and namesake to his great uncle, Ben Weston.  This Ben Weston developed a great interest in sailing, and was well known among yacht club circles of southern California. He died in Los Angeles at age 54 on January 9, 1947.

(Wife Dorothy---kids? Where buried? CA death certif.? 


'''July 7, 1911 [LAT]:''' “Bennie Weston, owner of the yawl ''Clipper'', will make a trip to Santa Barbara Island in  his boat early in August. From there he will cruise for a few weeks around Santa Catalina Island with a party of friends. Bennie spent several weeks at the island last summer in the ''Windsome'' and liked it so well that he wants to explore every point of interest around the big island.”


'''July 21, 1912 [LAT]:''' “Cruising in the channel… The yawl ''Clipper'', owned by Ben Weston, visited Santa Barbara Island and San Nicolas Island. The start was made from San Pedro breakwater… From Johnson’s Landing [Santa Catalina Island] the start was made for Santa Barbara Island… At present there is no animal life on the place with the exception of sea birds that make it their home. On the west slopes of the hill, on bluffs that drop a hundred or more feet to the water, hundreds of sea gulls, loons, shags, and pelicans have their nests and raise their young… The only sign of human life is the hut of some Jap fishermen, which is stuck in a niche in the east side. All around the island are caves and blowholes…”


'''August 1, 1924 [LAT]:''' “Commodore Ben Weston and Star Fleet Captain Owen Churchill, of the California Yacht Club, will take Weston’s Star boat, the California, to Long Island Sound in a third try for the International Star boat championship…”


'''June 7, 1927 [LAT]:''' “The ''Noble Debra'', flying the burgee of the Los Angeles Yacht Club and skippered by Ben Weston, took second honors for the series…”


'''January 10, 1947 [LAT]:''' “Deaths. Weston, Benjamin Price, beloved husband of Gladys N. Weston, son of Mrs. Orin S. Weston, father of Mrs. Harvey Somers. Masonic services 2 P.M. Saturday under auspices of Wilshire Lodge No. 445, F. & A.M., at Pierce Brothers Little Church Around the Corner, 3443 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood.”