President, Lease and Leigland, Building Contractors, Seattle, WA, 1929- ; Howard S. Lease moved his father's construction company from Great Falls, MT, to Seattle, WA, in 1939. The company became known as "Lease Crutcher Lewis" later.

Lease was active in the Association of General Contractors.

Graduate, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;

Until about 1939, Howard S. Lease maintained his home in MT.

N.T. Lease, Howard's father, began a construction business with H.S. Leigland in 1886 in Great Falls, MT.