CLASS OF 1872

Leslie Clark Wead died March 16 at his home in Boston, after an extended illness.

He was born in Malone. N. Y„ February 17, 1851, being a son of Samuel Clark and Mary E. (Kasson) Wead. He prepared for college at Franklin Academy, Malone, and took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, his twin brother, the late Chester Horton Wead, taking the academic course in the same class. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi).

After graduation he studied law, graduating from Albany Law School in 1874. He practiced for a time in his native town, but upon the death of his father succeeded him in the manufacture of paper, being from 1880 to 1886 president of the Wead' Paper Company of Malone. During the same period he was successively vice-president and president of National Bank of Malone. In 1886 he resumed the practice of law. In 1890 he removed to Boston, and from that time was engaged in real estate business, being a member of the firm of Whitcomb, Wead and Company, real estate brokers, until 1910. Since the last date he has been occupied as real estate expert and trustee, making a specialty of valuations of real estate and managing numerous important properties.

Mr. Wead's standing as an expert is evinced by his holding the following positions: vice-president of Merchants' Warehouse Company; director of Queensboro Corporation, New York; trustee of Monks Building Trust, Huntington Chambers Trust, Terminal Hotel Trust, Albany Warehouse Trust, Marlborough Real Estate Trust, Merrifield Buildings Trust.

Until the last few years he had made his home in Brookline, and there interested himself in local affairs and served frequently in public capacities. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. In 1903 he was appointed by Governor Bates a member of a commission to consider the extension of the right of eminent domain, and on this service visited London and Glasgow.

October 4, 1877, Mr. Wead was married to Kate H., daughter of William W. Whitcomb of Boston, who survives him. with two sons.