File:John Edgar Leaycraft (1849-1916) obituary in the New-York Tribune of New York City, New York on 4 July 1916.jpg

J. E. Leaycraft, Realty Man, Dies. Was State Tax Appraiser Twice and Member of Barge Canal Board. J. F.dirar bmjttntt, Who ?'ar'.ed hia business career as a cierk in a broker*! affiee and b^cimr r,r.? of the largest reai es'ate opera'ors Ifl New yaaterday at h:s home, .111 Wosl Ead Avenue. In the Rooarvelt; hr'! f?de!l sdmialstratiOBI Mr. Leay rra'" was State Tax Comrr.iss.oner. Bv appomtment of (iovernor Odoll he was a merr.bcr of the board of examinere and appraisers of 'he Barge Canal, from 1804 tO 1908. Hl was ?:x'y-eight \ear-. old. Born In N'ew Vork. Mr. Leaycraft Wl | ed tl 1 in the pu Hr : ths N'rw Jrork Free A.ademy. BOW . age of thr City of New Vork, bul found it aoesseary to ge ?o ^vork after or.e year there. Ir. 1885 ho found employment as a broker'i clerk. rm dissolvel Ifl 1878, and Mr. Leaycraft, who had won recognition by ,. want irto thr real es'.at* bui noaa on the Waat Side. He flrsr. ad himaelf at Kighth Avenue nnd Forty-aecond Ha lets offl "4 w< re ?? 10 Enat Forty-second Av n is He was ana af ths flrst a ?mbers of the Colonial Club, and waa li :n rhoosing ita lite. He was a director of the J. Kdgar Leeyeraft Com? pany, tha Lyaeroft Realty Company ! brary Square Realty < om? pany; a trustes of the F ? bi ?. Sevtags Bank i direetar af the New Ne*hrrland Bank and a member of the itats Cham i, tha Merchants* Ano .' r."a*? il lo wing c' ba: I n i?i Lrapur, Ropubl can, I Bwycra* and QuIlL Mr. Leaycraft 44as a thirty-aeeoBa de gree Mason. He was promir.ent in church and edueational affairs, being preaident of tho New York City Society of the Me'.hodist Episcopal Church and of 'hr Laymen'i Miai onarv Movement. He wai treaaursr of thr church board sf l lucation, manager of the Board of Foreign Miai m rlec pre?;der.t of tho American Bibls Bodety, a director of the V. M. * . A. ar.d a tr :s?ee of the in ternational committee .f -he V. M. C. A.. of Wes.eyan Univsrslty and of '"??'. ' e Seminsry.

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