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 LEAKIN

LEAMING

Mississippi and settled in Hinds county where he also practised law. He was elected U.S. senator on the admission of the state, Dec. 10, 1817, and drew the short term expiring March 4, 1821. He resigned in 1820 to accept the aj^pointment of judge of the U.S. circuit court and his place was filled by David Holmes (q. v.) He was governor of Mississippi, 1821-25, succeeding George Poin- dexter to that office. He died at Mt. Salus, Hinds county, Miss., Nov. 17, 1825.

LEAKIN, George Artnistead, clergyman and author, was born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 16, 1818 ; son of Gen. Sheppard Church and Mar- garet (Dobbin) Leakin ; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Irving) Leakin and of James and Anne (Hardin) Dobbin of Newry, Ireland, and a lineal descendant of John Leakin who came into the Province of Maryland in 1674 and established Leakin Manor on Middle River, and of Archibald Dobbin, of Monaghan, Ireland, who came to America in 1800. He was graduated at the Col- lege of New Jersey, A.B., 1835, A.M., 1838, and engaged as a civil engineer on the Susquehanna railroad. He studied at the Virginia Theological seminary, Alexandria, 1840-43, was made a ■deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1843, and ordained priest in 1845. He was assist- ant to the Rev. Dr. H. V. D. Johns, Christ church, Baltimore, and built the chapel of the Good Shepherd, 1843-45, and was rector of Trinity church, Baltimore, 1845-87. He was appointed by President Lincoln chaplain at McKim's and Patterson Park hospital, serving 1861-65, and in 1887 by Bishop Paret, chaiDlain of public insti- tutions for the poor, sick and prisoners. Dr. Leakin received the honorary degree of D.D. from St. John's college, Annapolis, in 1895, and was made a member of the Maryland Academy of Science, the Maryland Association for the Ad- vancement of Science and the Maryland Historical society. He is the author of : On the Death of Henry Clay (1852) ; National Gratitude a Pledge of National Safety (1859) ; The Influence of Re- ligion on Physical Health (1861) ; Legion or Feigned Excuses (1856) ; The Lato of Periodicity Applied to Mental, Social and Moral Depart- ments (1868).

LEAKIN, Sheppard Church, soldier, was born near Govanstown, Md., April 25, 1790; son of John and Elizabeth (Irvine) Leakin. He was connected with the Easton Gazette for some years, but removed to Baltimore where he was married to Margai-et Dobbin, a native of Armagh, Ire- land. He raised and commanded a company in the 38th regiment infantry under Col. Peter Little, 1812-14 ; and in August, 1814, while con- structing an abattis at North Point, was injured,

in spite of which he directed the movements of his company in Fort McHenry from a camp-stool, in the British attack, Sept. 13, 1814. He was high sherilf of Baltimore county, 1822 ; became one of the proprietors of the Baltimore Chronicle and Daily Advertiser in 1826, and was elected mayor of the city in 1838. In 1862 he was commissioned major-general of the First Light Division, Mary- land volunteers, superseding Gen. George H. Steuart, who joined the Confederate army. After the civil war he returned to his country seat, " Lodge Farm," North Point, and later removed to " Spring Hill," near Lake Roland, another family estate, where he died in 1867.

LEAMINQ, Jeremiah, clergyman, was born in Middletown, Conn., in May, 1717 ; son of Jere- miah and Abigail (Turner) Leaming, and grand- son of Christopher and Esther (Burnett) Leaming, of Southamijton, L.I., and of Edward and Sarah (Hall) Blake Turner, of Middletown. He was graduated from Yale in 1745 ; studied theology under the Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson, and was lay reader at Norwalk, Conn., 1745-47. He was ordained deacon, June 5, 1748, by Bishop Gilbert, of Llandaff, Wales, and priest, June 19, 1748, by Bishop Hoadly, of Winchester, England. He was master of the Charity school, Newport, 1748- 58 ; assistant to the Rev. James Honeyman, rector of Trinity church, Newport, 1748-50 ; minister in charge, 1750-54 ; and rector at Norwalk, Conn., 1758-79. His first wife, Ann, died in Newport, July 22, 1752, and in 1755 he was married to Elizabeth Peck, of New York. He was impris- oned as a Tory in 1776, and in July, 1779, his church, parish house and all personal effects were laid waste during Tryon's raid on Norfolk, and he was taken to New York by the invaders and remained there till peace was declared. During his imi^risonment he contracted hip disease, which crippled him for life and forced him to decline the nomination of first bishop of the American church in 1783. He was rector at Stratford, Conn., 1783-91, and in 1787 refused to go to England for consecration as coadjutor to Bishop Samuel Seabury, who had been conse- crated at Aberdeen, Scotland, Nov. 14, 1784. Pie resided in New York and at New Haven, Conn., 1791-1804, and during the last few years of his life was totally blind. He received from Yale the degree of A.M. in 1765, and from Columbia the honorary degree A.M. in 1765, and that of S.T.D. in 1789. He is the author of : Defense of the Episcopal Government of the Church (1766) ; Second Defeyise in Answer to Noah Welles (1770); Evidences of the Truths of Christianity (1785); Dissertations (1789). He died in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 15, 1804.