Sedgwick-Wilson County KS Archives Biographies.....Leasure, Ezra D. 1857 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Ezra D. Leasure, general manager of the Rock Island Lumber & Coal Company, of
Wichita, Kan., is a native of Pennsylvania, where he was born on January 3,
1857. His parents were Daniel and Rebecca (Jamison) Leasure, natives of
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and Scotland, respectively. Abram Leasure,
Ezra D.'s grandfather, was a native of France, and came from Switzerland to
Pennsylvania nearly a century ago. Ezra D. Leasure was educated in the public
schools of Iowa, to which state he had removed with his parents in early
childhood, the family locating at Des Moines. Mr. Leasure grew to manhood in
Jefferson, Green county, Iowa, where he remained for eighteen years. In 1877 he
went to the Black Hills and soon after to San Francisco, where he was employed
by the Wells-Fargo Express Company, returning to his home in Iowa two years
later. In 1879 Mr. Leasure moved to Kansas and was engaged for two years with S.
A. Brown & Co., at Fredonia, in the lumber business, in the capacity of
treasurer and auditor. He was next employed by G. B. Shaw & Co., a Chicago firm
operating in Kansas City, Mo., as traveling auditor. Later he became local
manager for this firm in offices at Burlington, Coffeyville, Chanute and Elk
City, Kan. October 23, 1886, Mr. Leasure became manager of the Rock Island
Lumber & Coal Company, and has been continuously in the employ of that company
since, either as local manager or traveling auditor. In May, 1909, he came to
the Wichita office as general manager of the business in Kansas and Oklahoma.
The lumber business was established in Wichita in April, 1886, succeeding John
B. Carey. Mr. Leasure is a member of the Masonic Order and the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows. He was married in 1883 to Miss Orlena M. Campbell, of Fredonia,
Kansas. They have one son, Charles A. Leasure, traveling auditor for the Rock
Island Lumber & Coal Company.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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