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professor of Hurgery, diseases of women and clinic gj'necology at the IVtroit college of medicine, and in 1907 b«'ciiiiie professor emeritus. Since 1880 he had iH't'ti editor of the Leonard Illustrated Medical Journal, In 1900 he was president of thf library commission ; an«l has l>een presidenl of the Wayne c<junty medical society. He ia the nutlior of Pocket Anatomist; Reference and

Dose Hook; Manual of Bandaging; The Hair and Its Diseases; Materia Medica and Therapeutics; Physicians Account Book; and other works. Leonard, Charles cator,

autlior.

Northwood.

Hall,

clergyman,

was born Sept.

N.ll.

In

It),

edu-

1S22,

in

he was pas-

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tor at Chelsea. Mass.; since 18t}9 has b»'en professor, and since 1884 has been dean of He is the divinity school at Tufts c<dleg»'. the author of Steps in the Religious Life.

Since 1890 he has lieen a degree of A.B. partner with Cotrel and Ix>onard of Allwny. .N.Y. In 1888-9:{ he served in the New York .Sational guard; and aeved at Butl'alo during the strike of 1892. He is a director of the .Mutual Fire Insurance coujpany; and has been vif'e president of the Albany iusliHe is lule and historical and art society. (be editor of Songs of Williams.

Leonard, George, lawyer, jurist, was born

He was a memM»98 in Massachusetts. Ikt of the .Massachusetts council in 1741; and chief justice in 1740. lie died in 1778 .Massachusetts. ill in

Leonard, George, lawyer, jurist, congresswas lH)rii July 4. 1729. in Norton, In 1748 In* graduated from HarvanI college; in 1784 was register of probate; and iiiaii.

iiin».

was provincial representative and councilor. In 1789-93 an<l 179.J-97 he was a representa-

Leonard, Daniel, lavy«T author, was born He was a noted in 1740 in .Massachusetts, lawyer of Taunton, Mass., who was for the raus<» of the loyalists before the opening of

tive from .Massachusetts to the first. s»>cond it ml fourth congresses. He was judge of the <"«imnnm pleas and a memuer of both house-s He die«l of the .Massachusetts legislature.

He was the authe American Ilevolution. thor of Massachu.settensis, a series of sev-

.Inly 20,

enttH'n ]H>litical letters on the side of the Knglisli government. He was banished from

bis stale; an«l later ln'came chief justice of Bermuda. He died in 1S20.

Leonard, Delaven Levant, clergyman, author, was born .luly 20, 1834, in Pendleton, N.Y. Since 180.'J he has been a clergyman of the eongregjitional church; since 1892 has l»een associate-editor of the Missionary Review of the World; and in 1899-19(»7 was chairman of the (.)hio church and ministerial supply bureau. He is the author of The Story of OlRTlin; The History of t'arleton College; A Hundred Years of Missions; and Missionary Annals of the Nineteenth CenInry.

Leo&ard, Fred Churchill, lawyer, merchant, congressman, was l>om Feb. H5, 18.^0, in Elmer, Pa. He was educated at the state normal at Mansfield, Williston semPa.; inary <»f Hasthamp-

and in from

ton,

.Ma.ss.

188;}

graduate<l

Yale

college.

He

studied law at Wellsboro. Pa.: and in 1885 was admitted t«) practice. In 1880 he nwved to KImira. N.Y.; and in 1887 iM'came an at( "ouilersport. Pa. In addition to practice he was also intereste<l in the lumItering business. In 189."( !)7 he was a repr«'s«Mitative from Penn.sylvania to the liftytiirni'v of

fourlh congress as a republican.

Leonard, Gardner Cotrell, merchant and wa> born Oct. 1(J, 180.1, in Springlielil. Mass. In 1882 he gradunled from .Mbany academy; and in 1887 graduated from Williams college with the

manufiu'turer.

West

1819. in

Raynham, Mass.

Leonard, Hiram, soldier, was born in Vermont. In 18(>2-tS.j he st-rved in the civil

war; and general.

180.j was brevetted brigadierdied Dec. 21, 188.}.

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He

Leonard, John Edwards, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was Ixirn September 22. 1845, He settled in I.^)uiHin Chester county. Pa. iana and practiced law; and was for a time district attorney. He was appointtMl a judge of the supreme court of the state; and in 1877-79 lu> was n representative from Louisiana

to

March

the forty-fifth

15, 1878, in

congress.

He

die<l

Havana. Cuba.

Leonard, John William, journalist, lawyer, author, was born June 0, 1849, in London, England. He receiv«>d an academic education; and came to America in 18(]8. In 1870 he was admitted to the practice of law; and has practiced in Texas, Arizona and Illinois. In 1878-80 he was county attorney of JelTerson county, Texas. He has Iravehnl in Europe, Africa. East Indies. Australia and America. In 1880 he iM'gan newspaper work as an editorial writer and e<litor of city dailies; and since 1880 has edited over thirty Inxiks. He «»ris:inated the

Who's

Who

edited

idea in the Unitetl States; an<l

Who's

Who

in .America; Who'-j of .America: and edited the S<icial Fonnn. II magazine, and the hooks Brehm's Life of .Anlmnls; and Best Thinjrs, by Chaunct v M. Deix'w. In 1898 and 1900 hp was a dt-mo••r;ilic nominee for congress from the eighth lias

Who

many

in

New York; Men

others.

He

Illinois district. For six years he was seerelnrv of the Imard of education of Whenfon. HI. He is the author of fJold Fields of Khmdvke: Centennial Review of Cincinnati; and other works.

Leonard, Jonah F. R., soldier, educator. iiiri>t. was lM»rn Pee. 10. 1832. near Waviies. burg. Pa. He enlisted umler .lim Tjine in the Kansas war for free state. He was

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