Captain L. W. Tappan, Jr., of the class of 1860, died at his home in Milton last Wednesday. He was born in Boston in 1840. After his graduation at Harvard he went abroad and studied law and languages at Gottingen. He returned after a year's absence and continued the study of law in an office and in the Law School. In 1862 he was commissioned first lieutenant and later captain of the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers. From 1863 to 1866 he was United States consul at Batavia, Java. Since then he has been interested in manufacturing and railroading.