Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Leeson, Henry C. August 5, 1841 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 350 & 351

Henry C. Leeson, grocer, Centreville, was born Aug. 5, 1841, near Jacksonburg, 
Wayne Co., Ind.; lived there until the year 1857, when he went to Dublin, 
being influenced by the high grade to which the public schools had been 
raised, and was a pupil during four terms. During vacation he was always found 
in some employment or other endeavoring to make the expenses of his parents in 
his education as light as possible. During the winter of 1860 and '61 he tried 
his hand in learning the young ideas how to shoot. Was successful to a 
remarkable extent, it being his first effort. When Fort Sumter was fired upon 
then everything personal was forgotten. All aspirations for the future were 
dropped and nothing could be done; but, being a minor, was prevented from 
enlisting immediately. He responded to the second call of Lincoln and enlisted 
Aug. 20, 1861, as private, in Company C, Eighth Indiana Infantry, serving 
three years, not having received a furlough during the time, and, with the 
exception of two short spe1ls of sickness, was always ready for duty. He was 
discharged as Second Sergeant---having been in all the battles that the 
regiment was engaged in, viz.: Pea Ridge, Mo., Raymond, Champion Hills, 
Jackson, Miss., siege of Vicksburg and many others. It may not be out of place 
to say that there are not many regiments that saw the services of the Eighth. 
After returning home he took a thorough course in the Miami Commercial College 
of Dayton, Ohio. In 1866 he assisted his father in the office of the Clerk of 
Wayne Circuit Court. In 1867, he purchased the grocery stock of the estate of 
Levi Fox. His father, Moses D. Leeson, was born in Harrison Township, Wayne 
Co., Ind., Nov. 16, 1818. Having received a fair education at the common 
schools of the day, he taught school with great success until 1842, when he 
purchased a. stock of goods in Jacksonburg, where he conducted a large 
business, continuing in Jacksonburg until 1857, when he moved to Dublin, 
superintending the business of J. & C. A. Leeson until 1862. When the call for 
more troops by Lincoln was made he enlisted in the Fifth Indiana Cavalry and 
served to the close of the war, a faithful soldier and a beloved officer. He 
received four promotions, entering as a Lieutenant and rising to the position 
of Major. He was a bold and fearless officer, leaving a good record. In 1866 
he was appointed Clerk of Wayne Circuit Court to fill vacancy caused by the 
death of Samuel B. Slagle, serving until the election of his successor. 
Retiring from office he remained with his son, our subject, in the store until 
August, 1877, when he was stricken with paralysis, lingering helpless for six 
years and five months, dying on the 19th day of January, 1884. His wife was 
Elizabeth Mundell, a native of Peru, mother of five children, three of whom 
still survive. Richard Leeson, the grandfather of Henry C. Leeson was a native 
of Kentucky, emigrating to Wayne County in about the year 1814, settling near 
Jacksonburg. He was a tanner by trade and carried on in connection with the 
tannery a farm of 300 acres. He was a soldier in what was known as the Ohio 
Militia, under General Wingate. He raised a family of eleven children, of whom 
Moses D. Leeson is the first to break the band.

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