Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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V DAVID PORTER LEAS, A.M.

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This Volume is respectfully dedicated to DAVID PORTER LEAS, A.M., Treasurer of Bucknell University since 1882.

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David Porter Leas. « « THE I ' niversity has ever been fortunate in having had associated with its management men of sound business judgment and of keen financial foresight. The office of treasurer on the board of trustees has always been filled by men with wide business experience. The name of David Porter Leas has been closely associated with the financial manage- ment of the University for nearly two decades. In all that time he has been a tower of strength on the board of trustees, and he has ever stood ready upon all occasions, not only in giving his services as a labor of love, to his Alma Mater, but lie has also assisted substantially, in all movements looking toward the progress and development of the institution, especially those movements which had for their object the placing of the University upon a firmer financial basis. Mr. Leas has been liberal in all things per- taining to the welfare of the University. A sketch of his life does not read like a romance, nor is there anything sensational about it. In a plain, quiet way, he lives a quiet gentleman of business, j-et in the church, among the Baptists, on the board of trustees of the University, and in the business realm, his wisdom and judgment are eagerly sought and followed. Mr. Leas was born September ii, 1842, in Shirleysburg, Huntingdon County, Pa. He is the son of Hon. William B. and Mary Leas, both well known in that section of the state. His father was a prominent business man, judge and banker. The father like the son, was also interested in higher education, as scholarship No. 13, belonging to the Pennsylvania Baptist Education Society, valued at $1500, and named in honor of William B. Leas, will attest. The subject of this sketch was educated at an academy in his native town, in which inslitution he remained until eighteen years of age, when in 1S60, he entered the Sophomore class of the University at Lewisburg (now Bucknell), and graduated in 1863, being the salutatorian of his class. In the fall of 1S63 he entered the Theological Seminary, at Rochester, N. Y.,