Anna W. Leach - Appointed Clerk - 1916

Succeeds Her Father

Supervisors Name Miss Anna W. Leach as Clerk

Utica Saturday Globe, February 1916

 

Anna Webb Leach

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  The action of the county Board of Supervisors at its special session recently in selecting Miss Anna W. Leach to succeed her father, the late W.B. Leach, as clerk of the board, has met the most cordial approval.  For 26 years Mr. Leach discharged the duties of clerk with rare ability and acceptance and during the last two years, while largely incapacitated by illness, he depended solely upon the assistance of his daughter, who performed practically all the work of clerk at the last session and made out the necessary reports.  Miss Leach is fully competent to take up the duties laid down by her deceased father and her election is a deserved compliment to her ability and a worthy tribute to the long and faithful service of her father, to whose memory suitable resolutions were adopted at the supervisors' special session.

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Marriage Announcement

 

WILSON - LEACH:  At Norwich [Chenango Co., NY], December 4, 1916, John Skiles Wilson of New York city and Miss Anna Webb Leach of this city, by the Rev. H.W. Foreman [Norwich Sun, Dec. 7, 1916]

 

Wilson - Leach

Mrs. Willie B. Leach announces the marriage of her older daughter, Miss Anna Webb Leach to John Skiles Wilson of New York city on Monday, Dec. 4, 1916.  After a month spent in new York city, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will be at home at 21 Elm street [Norwich, Chenango Co., NY].  Rev. H.W. Foreman, rector of Emmanuel church, performed the ceremony at 10 o'clock Monday morning at the home of the bride's mother at 20 Locust street. The ceremony was witnessed by the immediate families.  Miss Ruth W. Leach and Guy L Marsters were the attendants.  A wedding breakfast was served after which the bridal party left for New York.  Both young people have the hearty congratulations of a large circle of friends who wish them a long and happy life.  Mrs. Wilson is one of the most accomplished musicians in the city, her violin playing being in frequent demand.  For the past year she was the clerk of the board of supervisors following the death of her father.  Mr. Wilson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Osborne Wilson of Brooklyn is a salesman in this district for the ... Paint Company....He is held in high esteem by all who know him.  [Norwich Sun, Dec. 5, 1916]

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Father's Obituary - Willie B. Leach

Norwich Sun, January 19, 1916

Willie B. Leach, Esq., whose death occurred in this city on Monday last, was born in 1851.  After completing a high school course he entered Cornell university from which he was graduated in 1872. While at Cornell Mr. Leach developed into a noted athlete and was for some time coxswain of the Varsity crew.  Returning to Norwich, Mr. Leach entered upon the study of law and after his admission to the bar, became managing clerk of the noted law firm of Prindle, Knapp & Ray, of whose members Judge George W. Ray now only survives. At this time Mr. Leach was a notably brilliant young man of fine intellect and pleasing address.  His prospects for distinguished success in his profession were bright but he early became afflicted with chronic rheumatism of such severity as to incapacitate him from active practice.  Although thus handicapped, Mr Leach did not, as a weaker man might have done, give up in despair, but turned his talents and energies into employments wherein his knowledge of law stood him in good stead.  He was for many years the valued and trusted confidential law clerk of the late Judge David L. Follett.  For about nine years he was deputy county clerk of Chenango county and at the time of his death had been clerk of the board of supervisors of Chenango county for a continuous period of twenty-six years.  In this latter responsible employment Mr. Leach's services became invaluable and there never was any question as to his re-election at each session, members of both parties unanimously joining in their vote for him.  He was a charter member of the Norwich Club.  Personally, Mr. Leach was a genial, kindly man, devoted to his family and friends.  He bore his sufferings with the utmost fortitude and never allowed them nor the losses which came because of them, to embitter his feelings, or break down his courage. To the last he retained his high spirits and love of fun.  In June, 1890, Mr. Leach  married Miss Lela C. Webb, who survives him, together with his daughters, Anna W. Leach and Ruth W. Leach, and two sons, David P. Leach and William H. Leach. There also survive two brothers and one sister, Frank D. Leach of Utica, James Harrington Leach of  Norwich, and Mrs. Mabel F. Marsters of Norwich.