Bio: F. A. Leonard,  Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker




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     F. A. Leonard, district deputy clerk, Shreveport, La.  Mr. Leonard was
born in Campbell County, Ky., on April 1, 1842, and was but seven years of
age when his parents moved to Shreveport, La.  He had the advantages of a
good common school education while growing up, and in 1861, when but
nineteen years of age, he donned his suit of gray, shouldered his musket,
and enlisted in Company B, Eleventh Louisiana Infantry.  He served over
three years in the Trans-Mississippi Department, and was in all its
engagements.  Returning to Shreveport after the war he was made city
comptroller, holding that position in a satisfactory manner for two years.
After this he was engaged in the real estate business for about fourteen
years, and was parish assessor most of that time.  He is still engaged in
the real estate business to some extent, and as a real estate and land
agent he stands deservedly high in commercial circles.  He has been
district deputy clerk for about a year, and is peculiarly qualified for
this office.  Socially he is a member of the K. of P., the K. of H. and the
L. of H.  Mr. Leonard was married in 1869 to Miss Josephine Wilder, by whom
he has five children:  Nettie, Josephine, Willie, Adaline and Mattie.  Mrs.
Leonard is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  The parents of our
subject, Adam and Ann (Harris) Leonard, were natives respectively of
Pennsylvania and Tennessee.  The Leonard family is of German origin, the
paternal grandfather having emigrated from Germany to the United States and
settled in Pennsylvania at an early day.  There his death occurred.  He was
a soldier in the War of 1812.  Adam Leonard emigrated to Kentucky in 1840,
located in Campbell County, and there made his home until 1849.  He then
moved to Shreveport, La., where he died in 1866.  He was a planter.  The
mother died in 1884.  They had six children, only one (A. H.) besides F. A.
now living.