Background
Read, William Augustus was born on August 21, 1895 in Rye, New York, United States. Son of William Augustus and Caroline Hicks (Seaman).
Read, William Augustus was born on August 21, 1895 in Rye, New York, United States. Son of William Augustus and Caroline Hicks (Seaman).
Graduate Pomfret School, 1913, Harvard, 1918.
With Dillon Read & Company, 1919-1929, partner, 1921, vice president, 1922-1929. Vice president Central Hanover Bank & Trust Company, 1920-1940, 46-51. Vice president Hanover Bank, 1951-1955, senior vice president, 1955-1962.
Served as private, battery A, First Massachusetts Field Artillery, Mexican Border, 1916.
Married Edith Fabyan, May 10, 1917. Children: William Augustus, Curtis Seaman, David Westcott, Roderick Fabyan, Peter Bancroft, Alexander Duncan, Donald Bartow, Jean, Frederick Harvey.