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WALLACE POTTER WILLETT 



Mr. Wallace Potter Willett, late senior partner of the firm of Willett & Gray, New York, 

 died at his home in East Orange, New Jersey, October 13, 1917. Mr. Willett was born in 

 Ipswach, Mass., July 21, 1836. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. 



In the death of Mr. Willett, the dean of the Sugar Trade, lower Wall Street has seen the 

 passing of one who held for a longer number of years than is allowed most men a unique posi- 

 tion. His great faculty of retaining in his mind and compiling sugar statistics was remarkable, 

 and the Daily Sugar Trade Journal and Weekly Statistical Sugar Trade Journal, founded by 

 him many years ago, have reached such a high pinnacle that today they are recognized as the 

 unquestioned authority of the trade. As an expert witness in sugar matters he was in great 

 demand and had spent at times as long a period as a week on the witness stand, answering, with- 

 out hesitation, questions involving considerable statistics. Among the various hearings at 



