. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . To them wereborn five children:—Archie W., married,and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where heis engaged in the oil and gas business;Burt H., married, and living in Pitts-burgh ; Eda A., married to Don A. Bax-ter of Lima, Ohio; Edna R., living withher father; and Mary Myrtle, married toWilliam S. Paterson, of Flint, Leonard passed away in 1884, dur-ing the short time they lived in the stateof Kansas. Thereafter the family re-turned east and, on the opening of theoil fields in northwestern Ohio, movedto Lima. In 1894 they took up
. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . To them wereborn five children:—Archie W., married,and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where heis engaged in the oil and gas business;Burt H., married, and living in Pitts-burgh ; Eda A., married to Don A. Bax-ter of Lima, Ohio; Edna R., living withher father; and Mary Myrtle, married toWilliam S. Paterson, of Flint, Leonard passed away in 1884, dur-ing the short time they lived in the stateof Kansas. Thereafter the family re-turned east and, on the opening of theoil fields in northwestern Ohio, movedto Lima. In 1894 they took up their permanentresidence in Beaver, Pennsylvania. had remarried (1886), his sec-ond wife being Bertha Ault, of Clarioncounty; they have two children, Lois andLenore, both at school in New YorkState. The family attends the Presby-terian church, and is prominent sociallyin the Beaver Valley. At present Mr. Leonard is heavily in-terested in the production of oil andnatural gas in this and many otherStates; he is president of the Devonian I. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY Oil Company, and vice-president of theOklahoma Natural Gas Company. Atthe same time he has large interests inthe financial affairs of Beaver and Pitts-burgh; he is president of the BeaverTrust Company, which is one of Beavercountys strongest institutions, and a di-rector in the Columbia National Bank,also in the Colonial Trust Company ofPittsburgh. He is active in all these cor-porations, attending to their businesswith that same fidelity and executiveability which early brought him should be added that Mr. Leonard isinterested in all that makes for the gen-eral progress, giving his support tochurches and other institutions and goodcauses. He is a member of various Ma-sonic bodies in order through to thethirty-second degree; a member of theDuquesne Club of Pittsburgh; in poli-tics, a Republican. His associations andinterests mark, however, the man ofbroadmindedness. Simple in tastes, witha keen
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