Albert Blakeslee Wolfe ’31

Albert B. "Abe" Wolfe died of pneumonia in Peterborough, N.H., Mar. 7, 1998.

After graduating, he earned his law degree from Harvard in 1934 and was recruited by the Boston law firm of Rackemann, Sawyer, & Brewster, where he spent his whole legal career. He specialized in real estate law. He also spent four years in the Navy, retiring as lieutenant commander in 1946.

Abe represented clients in the building of the Prudential Center in downtown Boston and in the development of industrial parks on the city's outskirts. He was chairman of the Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section of the A.B.A., chaired (for 10 years) the Cambridge Historical Commission, and was a spark plug in the design and adoption of the Natl. Preservation Act of 1966, with its Register of Historic Places, and in that of the Uniform Conservation Easement Act in 1981. He was also a trustee of Marietta College and a founder of the Parkersburg [W.Va.] Community Foundation.

In 1942, Abe married Beatrice Ewan Gardner, who became the mother of his daughters, Katharine Ward Wolfe and Diana Wolfe Larkin. Beatrice died in 1986. To his daughters, two stepchildren from Beatrice's prior marriage, granddaughter, and Abe's many friends, the class extends its sympathy.