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Type of entity
Person
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Leet, Seth P. (Seth Penn), 1851-1926
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Description area
Dates of existence
1851-1926
History
Seth Penn Leet was born on April 26, 1851, in Richmond, Le Val-Saint-François, Quebec.
He was a Canadian lawyer and judge. He was educated at Danville Academy, obtained a Model School diploma, and worked as a school teacher for a few years. In 1879, he graduated from McGill University (B.C.L.) and was called to the bar in 1880. He practised in Montreal in partnership with Dr. J.J. Maclaren and R.C. Smith. After the dissolution of the firm in 1895, he practised by himself. In 1880, he became a Secretary of the Canadian Sunday School Union. He also served on the Executive Committee of the Dominion Alliance.
In 1874, he married Catherine O. Colwell and in 1920, he remarried Mary Annis Adams Griffith (1865-1952). He died on July 26, 1926, in Montreal, Quebec.