Mr. Lueas was a man of most generous and humane impulses, genial in manner and of the most amiable and sympathetic disposition. His associates in the Franklin Institute sincerely mourn his loss.
WALI)RON StIAPLE[OH.
Waldron Shapleigh, Chief Chemist to the Welsbaeh Company, and an esteemed member of the Franklin Institute, died on August 3 Β° , i9oi, at his summer home in West Lebanon, Me.
Mr. Shapleigh was the son of the late Marshall Spring Shapleigh, and was born in Philadelphia in I848:. At an early age he confined his education to the study of chemistry under the late Prof. j. P. Williams. At the age of 19 he was appointed as chemist to the Blair County Zinc Works in Pennsylvania, and a year later entered the Lehigh University as instructor of chemistry under the late Prof. Chas: M. Wetherill, whose place he temporarily filled upon his death. While at Lehigh University his interest was directed to the beet sugar industry, which was at that time engaging the attention of the scientific world. He resigned his position and went to France where he remained for two years so as to gain an intimate knowledge of this industry.
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