George LEONARD[1, 2] 1800 - 1881

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• Birth	08 Jul 1800	Greene County, Pennsylvania, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	17 Apr 1881	Eden, Delaware County, Ohio, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I539	Leonard
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2009

  
  

  Father	Lot LEONARD,   b. 05 Oct 1754, Mendham Twp, Morris Co., NJ ,   d. 07 Nov 1847, Homeville, Greene, Pennsylvania, USA
  Mother	Elizabeth HOGE,   b. 08 Jul 1757, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA ,   d. 07 Nov 1816, Homeville, Greene, Pennsylvania, USA
  Married	02 Aug 1779	Quaker Reds, Frederick County, Virginia, USA
  Family ID	F00252	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Mary JEWETT,   b. 1805, Vermont
  Married	Mt. Vernon, Ohio
  Children	1. Angie LEONARD,   b. 1840, Knox County, Ohio
  Family ID	F00249	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  GEORGE LEONARD; P. O. Eden. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in another part of this work, was born in Western, Penn., on the Monongahela River, forty miles above Pittsburgh, July 8, 1800, and is the son of Lot and Elizabeth (HOGE) LEONARD, the latter a second cousin of Gen. George Washington. His father was in the Indian war; he was a Methodist minister. Our subject was born on the farm, where he remained until 21 years of age. He commenced, when he was a young man, dealing in stock, which business he followed for a number of years. Purchasing a large number of cattle, he drove them across the Alleghany Mountains, which mountains he crossed nine times. In 1821, he moved to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he remained some nineteen years, during which time he was engaged in the cattle and mercantile business, and also engaged in purchasing land ; was a partner in the stock business with Judge Black. Mr. LEONARD has made several trips down the river on keelboats; went South and engaged in the mill and mercantile business on commission, doing business up the Arkansas River, near Arkansas Post. From Mt. Vernon he came to Delaware Co., and located in his present township, where he ha; been one of its honored citizens ever since. The first two years after he came here, he had pur. chased some 600 acres of land, paying for it $8.35 per acre; this land was located around and near Eden, and has greatly increased in value Mr. LEONARD has taken an active part in the im. provements of his town, and has been a hard worker for the interests of the railroad to Eden has given largely toward building churches and schools. He married in Mt. Vernon, Miss Mary Jewett, who was born in Vermont, on the Rive Lamoille. in 1805 ; they had five children Eleven years ago, Mr. LEONARD was stricken with paralysis, which has rendered his left side almost useless. His motto in life has been, "Do unto others ay you would be done by." A hard worker and good manager, and possessed of industry and economy, he has made a success of his life.




• Sources

  [S00043] Annals of the LEONARD-HUTCHINSON Families, Jennie LEONARD HUTCHINSON, (Name: Self-published 1949;). [S00280] One World Tree (sm), Ancestry.com, (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;). Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.