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Alexander Dean K. Leonard was born in 1839 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Ann F. Washburn were married on 25 August 1860 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.¹ He died on 3 December 1874 at age ~35 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

They had 10 children. He was a farmer when they married.

Dean was living with James and Wealtha Leonard in the 1860 Census, along with Wealtha C., 10, and Charles, 17, listed as farm laborers. Alexander Dean K. Leonard had person sources.²

Ann F. Washburn was born in December 1844 in Easton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Alexander Dean K. Leonard and she were married on 25 August 1860 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.¹

Guilford Henry Leonard was born in 1833 in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

He may be the Henry Gilbert Leonard listed under James and Wealthy Leonard.

Jane Jennett Mcdonell was born in 1787 in Edwardsburgh, Ontario, Canada. Ensign Nathaniel Leonard and she were married about 1808 in Edwardsburgh, Ontario, Canada. Samuel Lockwood and she were married on 27 February 1844. She died on 6 July 1858 at age ~71 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.¹ She was buried at Cataraqui United Church Cemetery, 965 Sydenham Road, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7M 3L8, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.²

Variations on the name: Jennet McDonell, Jane McDonald. Jennett is in documents related to land grants; Jane is name on her tombstone.

From Upper Canada Land Grants RG1, C14, Volume 3, page 37: Lot 17, concession 3, Township of Osgood, was granted to Jennet Leonard as the daughter of a United Empire Loyalist. According to Ontario Archives land records GS3714, reel 576 (Osgood Township), she sold it on 15 March 1832. This was just weeks before son Joseph's marriage, so it may have financed her move to Kingston and perhaps helped Joseph and his bride.

The Osgood land records show the following grants to children of John McDonnell of Edwardsburg: Lot 17, Jennet Leonard, lot 21 Ann McDonnell, lot 25, Catherine McDonnell, Lot 30-32 Allan McDonnell. Jennett's land ref. OC dtd. 23 Feb 1809 in William Reid's list.

Her tombstone in Cataraqui United Cemetery in Kingston reads: "In memory of Jane/wife of Nathaniel Leonard/who died/July 6, 1858/aged 71 years..."

Rev. Joseph Helmer Leonard was born on 22 March 1809 in Prescott, Edwardsburgh Township, Grenville County, Ontario, Canada.¹ He and Susannah Lockwood were married on 27 March 1832 in Kingston, Ontario.¹ He died on 18 June 1877 at age 68 in Rochelle, Ogle County, Illinois.² He was buried in June 1877 at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Rev. Joseph Helmer Leonard was buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Joseph Helmer Leonard may have received the name, Helmer, from a friend of his father's, Joseph Helmer of Williamsburgh, who was killed in the attack on Ogdensburg, NY, in 1813, part of the War of 1812.

Joseph was eldest son of Nathaniel Leonard. According to his obituary in the Canada Christian Advocate dtd. 4 July 1877, "his father was a citizen of Massachusetts and went to Canada to erect large mills, being a very skilful builder of such machinery. Joseph pursued the occupation up to the age of 18, when his father died and left him and his widowed mother in charge of the seven younger children." At the age of 19 he was licensed as an Episcopalian Methodist local preacher in 1828. He spent the next 5 or 6 years in pursuit of studies that would aid him in the work of the ministry. On 27 March 1832 he married Susannah Lockwood, who was 15 at the time. They spent the next several years in various towns where Joseph served as a circuit-riding Methodist preacher. He served in Augusta 1838-39, Matilda 1839, and Victoria district, Hastings Co. 1840-41, in Picton, Belleville, Sidney, and Brighton. He was ordained Sept 6, 1840 by Bishop John Reynolds. In 1843 at the annual Methodist Conference, he was appointed to organize and oversee the publicity and educational arm of the Methodist Church in Ontario. By 1844 he was editing, pulishing, and printing the Canadian Christian Advocate, and he added the Newcastle Courier, the Christian Messenger, Greenlief's Char, the Canadian Gem, and the Christian Almanac to the papers and publications that he printed or controlled. He was appointed Presiding Elder of the Toronto District by Bishop Philander Smither in 1847. About 1846 he established the Canadian Christian Advocate. Thus he became one of the most important forces in the Methodist Church of the time. During these years of power, Joseph Leonard lived and worked in Coburg, Ontario.

In the late 1840's there was a reorganization of the Canadian Methodist Church. Joseph lost control over Methodist views; his influence and credibility in the Church. This, along with some unknown personal crisis forced him to move to Toronto, where by 1850 he was living in poverty "by the toll-gate in northern Toronto" (now Bloor and Yonge Streets).

By 1852 his circumstances were so reduced that he accepted an offer from his younger brother Raymond, a Presbyterian minister, to become a chaplain of the Western Seamans Friend Society, a church group in Cleveland, OH, ministering to indigent mariners of the Great Lakes. He was transferred to the Niagara Conference by Bishop Philander Smith July 3, 1852.

Rev. Joseph Leonard went to Cleveland in 1852 and then was sent to Chicago in 1854 by the Western Seamen's Friend Society. He was a Methodist minister whose assignment was to minister to the sailors in Chicago. He was chaplain to the United States Marine Hospital. He took over as pastor of the Bethel Church, but raised funds to build a larger church called the Mariner's Church on the N.E. corner of Market and Michigan. It was first used for serviced April 11, 1869, and was formally dedicated June 25, 1871. Rev. Leonard preached at the dedication; however, soon after, the Mariner's Church was destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 9 October 1871. Many letters written by Rev. Leonard survive in the journals of the Western Seamen's Friend Society ofCleveland. These letter/reports were written to Rev. Raymond H. Leonard, the recording secretary and Joseph's brother. Immediately after the fire Joseph began raising money to rebuild, and laid the cornerstone of the new building in July 1873--this one called the Mariners' Temple, of brick, 5 stories high, at the original site.

Joseph often visited towns in Illinois to raise funds for his work. During one of these visits, on Sunday monring June 17, 1877, he preached in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Rochelle. The next morning, a Monday, before returning home he collaped and died while visiting the store of a contributor to the Church. He turned toward the door, but suddently fell to the floor, apparently dying instantly. Dr. R.L.Leonard continued the mission for nearly a year, but for lack of funds the work was suspended Oct. 1 1878, and was never resumed. In one of Joseph's letters he tells of sailing down the Des Plaines river in a canoe in order to find a good location for a campground at which to build summer homes and hold revivals. He was founder of the Methodist Campground which still stands along the River at Algonquin St. in Des Plaines. Joseph's daughter Mary who married Rev. Nate wrote a book which details some of the family history called "Silver Leaves." In it she relates some memories of summers spent at the campground, and also is the source for the birthdates of Joseph's children.

Rev. Leonard was appointed Chaplain in the army by Pres. Lincoln and discharged at the end of the war. Dr. Raymond Leonard had a Bible that was presented to Susannah by Pres. Lincoln which he donated to the Chicago Historical Society (and a descendant has a copy of the receipt for it); however, they no longer have it. They said they got rid of a lot of their old Bibles because they simply had too many. He also donated portraits of Rev. Joseph and Susannah--fortunately Rev. Joseph's survives, but hers does not.

Joseph first appear in a city directory in the 1855-56 Hall's directory. The 1856-7 Jager & Co. directory says he came to Chicago from NY 3 years ago (54-55?) From 1857 to 1866 he lived at 267 Illinois and in 1866 moved to 179 Huron St. and is still there in the 1870 census.

Joseph H. Jr. came to Chicago late in 1870 or 1871, as he is in the 1870-7 city directory but not the 1870 census. By 1873 the family (Raymond, Rev. Joseph and J. H. Jr) all lived at Market corner Michigan in the Mariner's residence. In 1877 Joseph died, and his widow Susanna is listed, but in 1879 Raymond moved to 94 N. Wells and Susanna is never listed again. In the 1860 census, Joseph is listed with wife Susanna age 44, son Raymond age 10, a Susan Lockwood age 20 and Annie Johnson age 11. All were born in Canada. A Barbara Leonard of 451 W. Taylor St. died April 5, 1901--could be JHL's 3rd wife?

Rev. Dr. Raymond Henry Leonard was born on 2 February 1815 in In or near Prescott, Ontario, Canada. He and Margaret Cowan were married on 25 January 1837. He died on 1 August 1895 at age 80 in Elyria, Ohio. He was buried in Cleveland, Lake View Cemetery, Ohio.

His early studies for the Presbyterian ministries were undertaken at Rochester, NY, in 1837. From 1840 to 1844, he and his wife were in Cincinnati as student and houseguests of Professor C. E. Stowe and his wife, Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin). He studied at Lane Theological Seminary from 1844 to 1848 when the Madison Presbytery ordained him. Hanover College awarded his Doctor of Divinity degree in 1888. He was a frequent visitor to Chicago where he stayed with his brother, Rev. Joseph Helmer Leonard.

"The Rev. R. H. Leonard, D.D., died on August 2 at the home of his daughter in Elyria, Ohio, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. He was well known and greatly beloved in this region, where he did his last miniterial work in charge of the Fourth and Elmwood Churches. He entered the ministry nearly a half century ago and was identified with the New School body until the period of the reunion. He was a true Christian man, evangelical in his belief, warm-hearted and sympathetic, full of devotion to Christ and unswerving in his loyalty to the Presbyterian Church. He was a member of the Cincinnati Presbytery and was one of the oldest ministers in the body. Dr. Leonard graduated from Lane Seminary in 1848 and was ordained by the Presbytery the same year. For twenty years he was secretary of the Western Seaman's Friend Society and for the following six years was pastor in East Cleveland. In 1873 he took charge of the church of Ludlow, KY, remaining with them for two years. Since then, or for twenty years, his home has been in Cincinnati, where he has been loved and where he will be lovingly remembered." From the Herald and Presbyter of Cincinnati as it appeared in the Elyria Democrat, August 8, 1895.

Susannah Lockwood was born on 10 March 1816 in Kingston, Canada.¹ Rev. Joseph Helmer Leonard and she were married on 27 March 1832 in Kingston, Ontario.¹ She died on 14 November 1881 at age 65 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.¹

She may have lived in the village of Collins Bay. She was of the Presbyterian faith when, at 15, she married Joseph, who was the local Methodist pastor. She converted to the Methodist Episcopalian Church in a revival conducted by her husband after about one year of marriage.

For 26 years she was identified with her husband in the work of the Seaman's Friend Society in Cleveland, OH, and Chicago, IL. For many years she was an active and efficient manager of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of Chicago. She was also one of the managers of the Chicago Home for the Friendless.

For the last ten years of her life, she suffered from shaking palsey, or paralysis. She died at the residence of her son, Dr. R. L. Leonard, of pneumonia after six days' illness at the age of sixty-five.

Joseph Homer Leonard was born on 7 July 1833 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He and Matilda M. Dexter were married on 23 December 1856 at English Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He and Elizabeth W. Alford Barney were married about 1865. He and Matilda M. Dexter were divorced in 1876 in Antelope County, Nebraska. He and Barbara Rigler Laney? were married on 31 October 1879 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He died on 10 August 1881 at age 48 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He was buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois.

He was a merchant in Chicago and a soldier during the Civil War. He moved to Chebance, Iroquis Co., IL, then to Chicago about 1858. About 1865 he left his wife for Lizzie Barney. The family was living together Chicago at the time of the 1870 Census.

Molly Leonard's story of the Leonard family, as relayed by Eric Bowler:

"Now for his son, the 2nd Joseph H. Leonard. He was born sometime in 1833 somewhere in Ontario. I think he was also well-educated, probably in Toronto. In any event it appears he stayed behind in the Toronto area when the family left for Chicago. In 1856 he married Matilda Dexter. Sometime between then and 1858, they moved to the Chicago area. Oak Park, Iroquois County? They had two children: Benjamin Franklin Leonard 1858-1922 and Ralph Vine Leonard 1865-1887.

Joseph was a soldier in the Civil War (the older Joseph served as a Chaplain to the Army in the Marine Hospital in Chicago...

Sometime during the War, Joseph met Elizabeth Alford Barney. She became his mistress, was divorced from her husband, Frank Barney, and they had three children... The family must have accepted this arrangement, at least tacitly, since he dared to give the children family names, but being staid, well-off, high profile Methodists, they probably were mortified. What fun!

Rumor has it that Joseph invented baking powder, but the formula was stolen by an assistant, so he couldn't patent it. I have read that in those days, if a second person produced your product before you completed the patent process, you lost your right to a patent...

Elizabeth died around 1874, and family members raised the children. Matilda took her sons to homestead in Nebraska and sued for divorce in 1876. I have the divorce papers, which indicated that they probably split up for good about 1871, and Joseph and Elizabeth may have moved to St. Louis. Also, Joseph probably abandoned his first two children... Matilda remarried in Nebraska and had a daughter named Hope.

Joseph remarried Barbara Rigler Laney (1843 to ?), maybe in St. Louis. They had one son, Charles E. (Robert?), born 1880, who died in infancy. Joseph himself died in 1881." (from Molly Leonard, via Eric Bowler 16 Jan 2007).

Mary Jane E. Leonard was born on 23 August 1836 in Coburg, Ontario, Canada. Rev. John Nate and she were married in December 1855 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. She died on 2 December 1908 at age 72 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Dr. Raymond Lockwood Leonard was born on 15 August 1850 in Toronto, Canada.¹ He died on 19 October 1918 at age 68 at Post Graduate Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.¹ He was buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

He was an early graduate of Rush Medical College and practiced for over 40 years on the north side of Chicago. He was a musician of note and composed much of his own music. The 1910 Census shows a Raymond L. Leonard, 59, a physician in general practice, living in Chicago with two servants and two lodgers. He apparently did not marry and had no children. He died of bladder cancer. Information for the death certificate appears to have been provided by Mrs. R. L. Leonard of 928 No. LaSalle St., Chicago. That would seem to mean he was married.

Rev. John Nate was born on 15 September 1832 in Gloucester, England. He and Mary Jane E. Leonard were married in December 1855 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He died on 24 December 1909 at age 77 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Albert D. Hager, "History of Early Chicago, Modern Chicago and Its Settlement, Early Chicago and the Northwest," page 844: "Rev. John Nate, Methodist Episcopal clergyman, was born in England in 1832, son of John M. and Ellen Nate. His parents came to America in his infancy, and located in New York in 1836 then removed to Ilinois. The subject of this sketch received his education at the Mt. Morris Seminary. In 1852 he was licensed to exhort, and in 1853 as a minister. He joined the illinois Conference in 1855, and was transferred to the Rock River Conference in 1856, and in October, 1859. or-dained elder. His first work in the ministry was as agent of the American Bible Society: his first charge was Mechanics-burg, and his first charge in the Rock River Conference was at Rochelle, Ill., where he located the Church and built a parsonage. In 1857, at Wheaton. he located the present Church of that place. His next charge was at Naperville and Turner's Junction. In 1860 and 1862, he was stationed at Kaneville and McHenry. In the latter part of that year he accepted the chaplaincy to the seamen at Milwaukee, Wis., uuder the charge of the Western Seamen's Friends Society. He founded the first Seamen Church in Milwaukee. In 1864 he was appointed district secretary and superintendent of Missions for the West, including the territory lying west of Detroit, with headquarters at Chicago. He remained in that position for ten years his residence during the time being at Evanston. In 1874 he organized a Church and erected a church building at Ravenswood. He was appointed to the Market-street Mission in Chicago, and for four years held tim position of temperance missionary. In 1880 he was stationed at Crete, Ill., in 1881-82 at Manteno, and in the fall of 1882 at Burrington, his present charge. He has always been an earnest temperance worker and an ardent prohibition advocate. He was married in 1855 to Miss Mary J. E. Leonard, daughter of Rev. J. H. and Susannah (Lockwood) Leonard. The issue of the marriage has been seven children, five of whom survive--John I., Mary S., Ada E., Joseph C. and Raymond J. He is a member of the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance, and Past Grand Worthy Patriarch."

John Matthew Nate was born about 1804 in England.

Ellen Prosser was born about 1812 in England.

Joseph Cookman Nate was born on 26 March 1868 in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois. He and Ruth Eleanor Evans were married on 12 November 1892 in Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois. He died on 30 July 1933 at age 65 in Denver, Colorado.

He graduated from Northwestern University Law School in 1893 and practiced in Chicago for six years before entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church as a pastor.

They had two daughters and one son.

Mary Susanna Nate was born in May 1860 in Napierville, Illinois.

Ada E. Nate was born on 13 November 1866 in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois. Melvin Clark McIntosh and she were married on 18 October 1888 in Asbury, Illinois. She died on 5 January 1947 at age 80 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. She was buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

She wrote a small book, "Silver Leaves" (Evanston: Modern Publishing Service, 1936), about her family. Was she buried in Rosehill Cemetery or Evergreen Cemetery, Barrington, Cook Co., IL?

Coke Leonard was born about 1844 in Kingston, Frontenac County, Canada.

He died in infancy.

Raymond Jesse Nate was born in 1871 in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois. He and Geraldine Ogden were married on 29 April 1908 in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois. He died on 10 March 1916 at age ~45 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

H was a graduate of the Rush Medical College. He was a physician and surgeon.

John McDonell died in 1838 in Ontario, Canada.

According to William Reid's "The Loyalists in Ontario," Loyalists who had served in the military in 1775-1783 were awarded land, as were their children thru "Orders-in-Council (OC) upon reaching 21 or marrying. John McDonnell of Edwardsburgh, Ontario was one of those, listed as "Soldier, KKR, NY," making his children eligible for land grants of 100 acres (check).

Land grant OC dtd. 13 Feb 1812.

Rebecca G. Leonard was born in 1829 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. James M. Lincoln and she were married on 3 May 1846 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

She was a tailoress.