BIO:  SHEPARD, Leander J., s/o Horace B. & Martha (Harper) Shepard

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

SHEPARD   HARPER   EMMONS	

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886

Knox County, Vincennes Twp., page 389

LEANDER J. SHEPARD, coal dealer, of Vincennes, Ind., is a son of Horace B.
and Martha (Harper) Shepard, who were born in Kentucky.  The father came to
Knox County, Ind., in 1820, and located on a farm, where he resided until 
1862 and then took up his residence in this city, where he now resides at 
the advanced age of eighty-seven years.  He was formerly a Whig in politics
but is now a Republican.  He has held a number of important offices in town
and county, and was a member of the State Legislature one term and has been
an active worker for his party in his day.  Leander J. was born in Knox
County, Ind., November 12, 1828, and spent his boyhood days on a farm and
secured a common school education.  At the age of twenty-six he engaged in
the mercantile business in Illinois, continuing there five or six years. 
He then returned to this city and soon after accepted a position under Gen.
James C. Veatch, in the office of collector of revenue at Evansville, and
remained with him two years.  He then returned to this city in 1881 and
purchased an interest in the Edwardsport Coal Company, and also established
his coal yards in this city.  The mine which supplied their coal gave out,
and he in company with others organized the Indian Creek Coal Company and
opened a mine at Bicknell, which they are now operating successfully.  In
1854 Mr. Shepard married Jane Emmons, a native of Illinois.  They have one
son, named Charles E.  Mr. Shepard is a Republican in politics and a member
of the I.O.O.F.
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