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CLYDE
B. LEASURE
With
banking interests of Los Angeles, Clyde B. Leasure
was closely connected until called upon for public service and is now the
capable secretary of the city Board of Health.
He was born in Jamestown, New York, November 21, 1888, a son of Hiram T.
and MaBelle (Tinkey) Leasure, descendants of titled families of France. The father served as secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce of Erie, Pennsylvania, for years and in later life he was a
representative of the Equitable Life Assurance Company of New York.
An
infant when the family settled in Erie, Clyde B. Leasure
was reared in that city and acquired a high school education. Entering the Second National Bank of Erie, he
remained in its employ for ten years and was next manager of the Erie County
Electric Company, a position which he held for nine months. In December, 1920, he came west, locating at
Los Angeles, and for a time held a responsible post in the Hellman Bank. He resigned to take charge of the loan
department of the Bank of America but left that institution at the end of a
year to enter the Peoples National Bank.
With broad experience in financial affairs, he entered the office of the
city treasurer as cashier, in which capacity he acted
for five years, and since 1931 has been secretary of the Los Angeles Board of
Health, discharging his important duties with the thoroughness and efficiency
that have characterized his work throughout life.
On
December 7, 1928, Mr. Leasure was married to Mrs.
Maude (Mueller) Ward, a daughter of General Mueller, formerly head of the
California National Guard. Mr. Leasure is a veteran of the World War. Enlisting in the United States Army, he was
sent to the officers training camp at Fort Niagara, New York, where he was
commissioned a first lieutenant. In
August, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of captain. He is a member of the Army and Navy Club of
Los Angeles, a captain in the Three Hundred Sixty-fourth Infantry Organized
Reserves, first vice-commander of City Hall Post of the American Legion, and a
member of the Reserve Officers Association.
In politics a Republican, he has conscientiously fulfilled the
responsibilities and obligations of citizenship and is deeply interested in all
matters of public moment. He is a loyal
Californian and regards Los Angeles as a most desirable
place of residence.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South Vol.
IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 721-722,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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