Vice Admiral William Augustus Read, United States Naval Reserve, retired, and a former New York City banker, died Tuesday in his summer home at Tupper Lake, N.Y. Mr. Read, who also had home in. Purchase, N.Y., was 81 years old.
Admiral Read, a native of Rye, N.Y., was in the class of 1918 at Harvard Unit versity. But he left to serve in the artillery on the Mexican border in 1916, and in World War I served as a Navy aviator.
After the war, he became a partner in Dillon, Read & Company, the investmentbanking firm founded by his father, William A. Read.
He resigned in 1930 to become head of the trust department of the Hanover Bank and left in 1938 to go on active duty as lieutenant commander with the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington.
During World War II,.he saw action in 11 battles in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. He became a vice admiral in the Reserve in 1960.
After the war he returned to the hank, and served as senior vice president until his setirement in 1962. From 1927 to 1952 he also had served as Police Commissioner of Harrison, N.Y.
Admiral Read, a native of Rye, N.Y., was in the class of 1918 at Harvard Unit versity. But he left to serve in the artillery on the Mexican border in 1916, and in World War I served as a Navy aviator.
After the war, he became a partner in Dillon, Read & Company, the investmentbanking firm founded by his father, William A. Read.
He resigned in 1930 to become head of the trust department of the Hanover Bank and left in 1938 to go on active duty as lieutenant commander with the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington.
During World War II,.he saw action in 11 battles in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. He became a vice admiral in the Reserve in 1960.
After the war he returned to the hank, and served as senior vice president until his setirement in 1962. From 1927 to 1952 he also had served as Police Commissioner of Harrison, N.Y.
Vice Admiral William Augustus Read, United States Naval Reserve, retired, and a former New York City banker, died Tuesday in his summer home at Tupper Lake, N.Y. Mr. Read, who also had home in. Purchase, N.Y., was 81 years old.
Admiral Read, a native of Rye, N.Y., was in the class of 1918 at Harvard Unit versity. But he left to serve in the artillery on the Mexican border in 1916, and in World War I served as a Navy aviator.
After the war, he became a partner in Dillon, Read & Company, the investmentbanking firm founded by his father, William A. Read.
He resigned in 1930 to become head of the trust department of the Hanover Bank and left in 1938 to go on active duty as lieutenant commander with the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington.
During World War II,.he saw action in 11 battles in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. He became a vice admiral in the Reserve in 1960.
After the war he returned to the hank, and served as senior vice president until his setirement in 1962. From 1927 to 1952 he also had served as Police Commissioner of Harrison, N.Y.
Admiral Read, a native of Rye, N.Y., was in the class of 1918 at Harvard Unit versity. But he left to serve in the artillery on the Mexican border in 1916, and in World War I served as a Navy aviator.
After the war, he became a partner in Dillon, Read & Company, the investmentbanking firm founded by his father, William A. Read.
He resigned in 1930 to become head of the trust department of the Hanover Bank and left in 1938 to go on active duty as lieutenant commander with the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington.
During World War II,.he saw action in 11 battles in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. He became a vice admiral in the Reserve in 1960.
After the war he returned to the hank, and served as senior vice president until his setirement in 1962. From 1927 to 1952 he also had served as Police Commissioner of Harrison, N.Y.
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