Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon at West End Funeral Chapel, 200 West Ninety-first street, for Moses S. Leipsiger, 59, former secretary to the New York City Department of Correction, who died on Sunday at his home, 176 West Eighty-seventh street, after an illness of almost a year’s duration.
An associate of Marshall Ingram, Tammany leader of the Seventh Assembly District, Mr. Leipsiger was active in the Amsterdam Democratic Club of which he was secretary. He was appointed to the Department of Correction post in October, 1931, by Richard C. Patterson Jr., and continued in that office until January 1934. At one time he was a deputy collector of internal revenue.
Surviving are his widow, Mildred, two brothers and two sisters.
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