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 LEONARD

LERAY

Mass., in 1653, where they engaged in the manu- facture of iron. George Leonard was admitted to the bar about 1720. He was married in 1721 to Rachel Clap of Scituate. He was justice of the peace, 1723-37 ; judge of the court of common pleas, 1725-30, 1733-40, and 1746-74 ; and judge of the probate court, 1747-78. He died in Norton, Mass., Dec. 4, 1778.

LEONARD, George, representative, was born in Norton, Mass., July 4, 1729 ; son of Judge George and Rachel (Clap) Leonard. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B. 1748, A.M. 1751 ; was register of tlie probate court, 1749-83 ; and was admitted to the bar in 1750. He was married Nov. 27, 1759, to Experience, daughter of the Hon. Samuel White, of Taunton. He was a rejiresen- tative in the provincial legislature, 1764-66 ; coun- cillor, 1770-75 ; judge of the probate court, 1784- 90 ; judge of the court of common pleas, 1785-98, and chief justice, 1798-1804. He represented Massachusetts in the 1st, 3d and 4th congresses, 1789-91 and 1793-97 ; was a state senator, 1792-93, and a state representative, 1801-02. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1753 and that of LL.D. from Brown in 1804. He died in Raynham, Mass.. July 26, 1819.

LEONARD, Stephen Banks, representative, was born in New York city, April 15, 1793 ; son of Silas and Joanna (Gregory) Leonard, of Bridge- port, Conn., grandson of Joshua Leonard of New Jersey, and a descendant of James and Heniy Leonard of Taunton, Mass., 1653. He removed with his parents to Owego, N.Y., and learned the printer's trade. He was married, Feb. 22, 1818, to Esther H. Sperry, daughter of Jared Sperry of New Preston, Conn. He purchased the American Farmer in 1814, and changed the name to Oivego Gazette which he continued to publish until 1835. He carried the first mail through Tioga county in 1814 on horseback and established the first stage route from Owego to Bath in 1816. He was post- master of Owego, 1816-20 and 1844-49 ; super- visor of the town in 1854 and 1856 ; a Democratic representative in the 24th and 26th congresses, 1835-37 and 1839-41, and deputy U.S. marshal during the administration of President Buchanan, 1857-61. He died in Owego, N. Y., May 8, 1876.

LEONARD, William Andrew, fourth bishop of Ohio and 151st in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Southport, Conn., July 15, 1848 ; son of William Boardman and Louisa (Buckley) Leonard, grandson of Stephen Banks Leonard (q. v.) ; great grandson of Silas Leonard, and a descendant of Henry Leonard, Taunton, Mass., 1653. He was a student at Phillips An- dover acadomy, and at St. Stephen's college, An- nandale, N.Y., and was graduated at Berkeley Divinity school, Middletown, Conn., in 1871. He was made deacon May, 31, 1871, and ordained

priest, July 22, 1872. He was married, April 17, 1873, to Sarah Louisa, daughter of Thomas and Phebe Sullivan of Brooklyn, N.Y. He was assistant to the Rev. Charles H. Hall, D.D..at Holy Trinity church, Brooklyn, N.Y''., 1871-72, and was rector of the Church of the Re- deemer, Brooklyn, N. Y^, 1872-80, and of St. John's church, Wash- ington, D.C., 1880- 89. He was chosen missionary bishop of Washington Terri- tory in 1880, but de- clined the appoint- ment. He was elect- ed bishop of Ohio in 1889 and was conse- crated in St. Thomas's , church. New Y^nk, ^^U-IaJ/iam. ^^ (ZoT-i^^^*^ Oct. 12, 1889, by Bish- ops Williams, Doane, Whitehead, Paret. Whip- ple, Vincent, and Courtney of Nova Scotia. He received the degi'ee of D.D. from St. Stephen's college in 1881 and from Washington and Lee university in 1883. He is the author of Via Sacra, or Footprints of Christ (1879) ; Brief History of the Christian Church (1883); A Faith- ful Life (1887) ; Church Club Lectures (1893) ; Bedell Lectures (1894).

LERAY, Francis Xavier, R.C. archbishop, was born at Chateaugiron, Rennes, France, April 20, 1825. He studied for the priesthood, and in 1843 emigrated to the United States. He was a teacher in Spring Hill college. Mobile, Ala.; a seminarian at the Sulpitian college of Baltimore, and on graduating became prefect of St. Mary's college. He subseqviently travelled as a missionary throxigh the southwest, and on March 19, 1852, was or- dained priest b}^ Bishop Chanche at Natchez, Miss. He was at Jackson, Miss., through the yel- low fever epidemics of 1853 and 1855 ; established a parish at Vicksburg, Miss., in 1857, and tlie Sisters of Mercy in 1860, bringing the first mem- bers of the order from Baltimore. He joined the Confederate army in 1861 as chaplain, and placed the army hospitals of the diocese in charge of the Sisters of Mercy. At the close of hostilities he returned to Vicksburg and re-established the various Catholic institutions interrupted bj' the war, and when the cholera visited the city in 1867 he placed trained nurses from the orders of women in charge of the temporary hospitals. He was elected bishop of Natchitoches, La., in 1877, as successor to Bishop A. M. Martin, who died, Sept. 29, 1875, and he went to France to receive consecration in his native city, April 22, 1877, at the hands of Cardinal St. Marc, archbishop of