Jeptha Wade - Legacy

Legacy

Wade's grandchildren included Jeptha Homer Wade II (1857-1926), son of Randall Palmer Wade and Anna Rebecca McGaw Wade. He worked in the telegraph industry, banking industry, railway business, mining industry, and manufacturing after graduating from Mt. Pleasant Academy in Ossining, New York and Western Reserve University. He owned the USS Wadena (SP-158). He established the family's Mill Pond Plantation in Thomasville, Georgia in 1906 (later divided by the family to include the Arcadia Plantation). Wade the II bequeathed the Cleveland Natural History Museum a large gem collection now part of the The Jeptha Homer Wade II Gallery of Gems and Jewels.

Another of the family's Jeptha H. Wades (December 26, 1924 - August 8, 2008) was a prominent Boston attorney who assisted in the formation of the federal Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was the son of George G. and Irene Love Wade and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (19460. He married Emily Vanderbilt and served in the American Field Service beginning in 1944. He graduated Harvard Law School in 1950. He volunteered as an assistant to retired Secretary of the Army John McCloy in the formation of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under the Kennedy Administration before returning to Choate, Hall & Stewart in 1961. He was an advocate for nuclear arms control, president of the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control( later known as LAWS, Lawyers for World Security).