Not long after Charles Alfred's birth, the family moved to Colorado.
Weatherby studied literature at Harvard University,[1] graduating summa cum laude in 1897.
It was during this time he began his interest in botany and joined the Connecticut Botanical Society.
In 1910 Weatherby went to Europe, where he met Una Leonora Foster, an artist with an interest in botany.
[4] There are also tributes in professional journals,[5][6][7] The standard author abbreviation Weath.