Chester Horton Wead was born at Malone, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1851, and died at Aurora, Mo., Aug. 23, 1907. In college he was one of the charter members of the Omicron Deuteron charge of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. After graduation he entered upon the manufacture of paper in his native town, and so continued for about twenty years. He was then in mercantile business for about five years, and about 1900 removed to Missouri, where he was engaged in mining most of the time until his death. He was married in 1881 to Jennie Hinckley, who lived less than a year after their marriage. They had no children. Many years before his death he was injured by a fall, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. He held ho political position beyond serving as trustee of Malone village.
Secretary, Prof. Albert E. Frost, Winthrop St., Pittsburg, Pa.