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NAME LEONARD 697 LEONARD tember 4, 1798, and was the only child of Dr. John Juhus and Nancy McCully LeMoyne ; his father, when the French Revolution began, left France on account of his liberal sentiments, with the members of the French Colony, and settled at Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1790; a few years later going to Washington, Pennsylvania. Francis Julius LeMoyne was educated at Washington College (now Washington and Jefferson College), Washington, Pennsylvania, and graduated at the age of seventeen. He attended lectures for two winters at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, making the trip to Philadelphia both times on horseback, and, graduating in 1823, began active practice in 1824, after serving a year as interne at the Pennsylvania Hospital. In May, 1823, he married Madelaine Ro- maine Bureau of Gallipolis, Ohio, whose par- ents were also members of the French Colony, and had eight children, three sons and five daughters. Dr. LeMoyne was a strong, broad, earnest man ; a great reader and a student to the end of his life. He was fearless of criti- cism and wholly indifferent to popular senti- ment; uncompromising on all questions of right or wrong, he often said, "of two evils choose neither." About 1835 he became deeply interested in the anti-slavery movement and in education. He was one of the founders of the female Seminary at Washington in 1836, which is still in existence. Later he endowed a chair in Washington and Jefferson College and af- ter the war established a normal school for the colored people at Memphis, Tennessee. Following this he established the Citizen's Li- brary and Free Reading Rooms at Washing- ton, Pennsylvania. Dr. LeMoyne's last effort in reform was in regard to cremation. He became convinced years before his death that cremation was the proper and sanitary method of disposing of the dead and with that in view he offered to build a crematory in the Washington ceme- tery, Pennsylvania. However, his offer was declined, so he erected one in 1876 on his own grounds, the first and only one in the United States until 1884. Dr. LeMoyne died October 14, 1879 of dia- betes and was cremated. Of his sons, Frank, born at Washington, Pennsylvania, April, 1839, followed him in the medical profession. Adolph Koenig. Leonard, Charles Lester (1861-1913) Charles Lester Leonard, a pioneer in Roent- genology, and the first in America to demon- strate calculi in the kidney and to show the kidney outline, so vital in an x-ray diagnosis, also widely known as a teacher in. x-ray methods of diagnosis, laid down his life like so many a martyr to his own specialty. Leonard was born in Easthampton, Massa- chusetts, December 29, 1861, the son of M. Hayden Leonard and Harriet Moore, and traced his ancestry to John Leonard who set- tled in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1632. He was fitted for college at the Rittenhouse Acad- emy, Philadelphia, and received the A. B. de- gree at the University of Pennsylvania 188S, and at Harvard 1886, graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1889 and took his A. M. in 1892. After graduating he spent several years in Europe in the laboratories, devoted much time to photomicrography in the Pepper Laboratory, Philadelphia, and suc- ceeded by means of an original electric shut- ter, in photographing various periods in the life cycle of microscopic organisms. In 1896 he took up the study of Roentgen- ology to which he gradually devoted all his energies. He married Ruth Hodgson and they had one daughter, Catherine Henrietta Lawson Leonard, who married Captain James Bennett Hance, I. M. S., June 24, 1916, at Oxford England. A director of the Roentgen Laboratories in various hospitals, including the University of Pennsylvania, Methodist Episcopal and Poly- clinic, he was professor of Roentgenology at the Philadelphia Polyclinic and president of the American Roentgen Ray Society in 1904 and in 1905, and a Fellow of the British and the German Roentgen Societies. He founded the Philadelphia Roentgen Society in 1906 and remained its secretary until his death. In 1905 he went as the delegate of the American Med- ical Association to the Roentgen decennial meeting in Berlin and in 1908 he read a paper at the British Medical Association as invited guest. As a delegate from the American Med- ical Association to the Fourth International Congress of Radiology in Amsterdam he read a paper on "Varying Forrns of Peristaltic Waves." He was associate editor of the Archives of the Roentgen Ray of London, the Zcitschift fiir Roentgenkttnde of Leipsic, and the Journal de Radiologic of Brussels. In August, 1913, he was to have been pres- ent at the International Congress of Medi- cine, Section of Radiology, in London when he and Holzknecht of Vienna were to report on "The present Status of Roentgen Diagno- sis in Gastro-intestinal Conditions." This paper, representing a year's work, was his last.