Background
Nead, Benjamin Matthias was born on July 14, 1847 in Antrim, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Ellen (Wunderlich) Nead.
Nead, Benjamin Matthias was born on July 14, 1847 in Antrim, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Benjamin Franklin and Ellen (Wunderlich) Nead.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1870. Honorary Doctor of Letters, Franklin and Marshall College, 1917. Admitted to bar, 1872.
Practiced in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, until 1875. In office of auditor-general of Pennsylvania, 1875-1881, since then in practice at Harrisburg.
Served on Cooper Tax Commission, 1881, and on committee of expert accountants appointed by Governor Pattison, 1883, to devise new system of keeping accounts of state. Member Alumni Advisory Board of Yale Corporation, since 1913.
Married Libbie J. Hayes, October 10, 1875 (died 1882). Married second, Annie East. Zollinger, January 12, 1892 (died 1906).