William H. Wells ’31

William H. Wells died Jan 30, 1997, in Morristown, N.J., following a very full life in his native Bordentown. He was 86. He prepared at Bordentown Military Institute, and, after graduation, earned a degree from Harvard Law School. He was law clerk to Arthur Vanderbilt, New Jersey's Chief Justice, before joining his father's law firm, where he practiced until April of this year. He acquired an additional degree in banking from Rutgers.

In 1942 he was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army. He served in England, Belgium, and Germany, and was logistics officer in the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge. He retired in 1945 as a lieutenant colonel and resumed his law practice.

In civilian life, he was president of Bordentown Banking Co., chairman of the Bank of Mid-Jersey, president of the County Bar and Bankers' Assns., chair of the board of education and the county chapter of the American Red Cross, and an active supporter of many causes, including Princeton, the Class of '31, and the Methodist Church Sunday School. He was nominated for Congress, but not elected.

He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Margaret Collier Wells, daughters Judy Galloway and Meg, brother H. B. Jr., sister Betty Mann, and five grandchildren. We will miss him, as will his family, his clients, and the whole of Bordentown.

The Class of 1931