Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

Grand Rapids Michigan businessman and politician, active in lumbering and banking in Wisconsin and Michigan, Democratic party official, head of Board of World's Fair Managers for Michigan, overseeing state's exhibits at 1893 Columbian Exposition. Collection primarily documents business activities with some material on World's Columbian Exposition, as well as personal and family material.

The Weston collection primarily documents the career of Isaac M. Weston. Included are smaller series of papers of his brother and father. The collection includes correspondence, topical files, business and legal papers, and photographs. Of note are materials concerning Michigan's exhibit at the World Fair in 1893 and papers concerning lumbering and land interests in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Editor and publisher of the Daily Tribune; scrapbooks of newspaper columns and editorials, and miscellaneous.

The collection consists of a miscellanea of correspondence, photographs, and biographical materials. There are also extensive files of his newspaper column "Personally Speaking" and the editorials he wrote for the newspaper.