Francis Rawle Wadleigh ’22

Whitey Wadleigh died at his home Mar. 29, 1996. He was born in 1899 in Petersburg, Va., and attended the Jefferson School for Boys in Charlottesville and Princeton Prep School. At Princeton he was a member of Cottage Club.

As a youth he learned about the coal business while working in the mines of West Virginia. As a graduate engineer he worked for Consolidated Edison of New York for over 30 years and supervised the construction of the first Indian Point nuclear plant.

He was a private in the Army in WWI and was a lt. commander in the Navy in WWII.

He married the late Josephine Lerch in 1931 and is survived by his sister, Eleanor (widow of Edmund A. Steimle '30), his daughter, Elizabeth Leary, his son, Francis R. III, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

The Class of 1922