Gentry-Worth County MO Archives Biographies.....McLeod, Edward Miles September 6, 1846 - September 9, 1918
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Source: A History of Northwest Missouri Volume 3
Author: edited by Walter Williams

Edward Miles McLeod was born in Delaware County, Ohio, on the 6th of 
September, 1846, and is a son of Ingles and Hettie (Roberts) McLeod, the 
former of whom was born in the State of Kentucky, in 1822, of stanch Scotch-
Irish lineage, and the latter of whom was born in Delaware County, Ohio, her 
entire life having there been passed, and her death having occurred in 1898. 
Ingles McLeod's father was a native of Pennsylvania, born near the City of 
Philadelphia, and in his earlier life this worthy ancestor was a sea-faring 
man, later learning the trade of rope making. He finally removed to Kentucky, 
for the purpose of manufacturing rope in a district where adequate supplies of 
hemp were grown, but when he found it virtually impossible to compete with 
slave labor in the old Bluegrass Commonwealth, he removed with his family to 
Delaware County, Ohio, where he entered claim to a section of wild land and 
developed a fine farm, besides continuing to give more or less attention to 
the work of his trade. He attained to the age of sixty-five years, and his 
wife, who was born in Pennsylvania and whose maiden name was Ingles, preceded 
him in death by a few years. They became the parents of eleven sons and two 
daughters, namely: John, Reynolds, Lewis, Turner, George, Edward, Ingles, 
Charles, Alfred, Walter, Leonard, Margaret and Eliza. Margaret married Jacob 
Wicks and the name of Eliza 's husband was Amlin. The sons were reared to 
manhood in the old Buckeye State, and it may be noted that of the number John 
died in Shelby County, Missouri; Reynolds established his home in Iowa; Turner 
passed the closing years of his life in Southern Missouri; and Lewis and 
Edward were residents of Indiana at the time of their death.

Ingles McLeod learned the trade of ropemaking under the direction of his 
father, but when machines were invented for the manufacturing of rope the 
tradesmen who still utilized the old-time hand method found it impossible to 
compete with the modern system. Mr. McLeod became one of the substantial and 
prosperous farmers of Delaware County, Ohio, where he served also as a member 
of the state militia in the early days, his son, Judge McLeod, having clear 
memory of the insignia of patriotic colors which the father was entitled to 
and wore upon his hat, though he was never called into active war service. He 
died in 1860, at the age of forty-two years. His wife was a daughter of John 
Roberts, a Pennsylvania man who settled on '' Yankee Street'' in Delaware 
County, Ohio, and, like all other residents of that colloquially designated 
thoroughfare, he became a wealthy and independent farmer. Mrs. Hettie 
(Roberts) McLeod survived the husband of her youth by nearly forty years and 
continued to reside in the county of her birth until she too was summoned to 
eternal rest, in 1898, at a venerable age. Of the children the eldest is 
Emory, now a resident of Westerville, Franklin County, Ohio; Judge Edward M., 
of this review, was the second in order of birth; and Caroline is the widow of 
Henry M. Williams, of Westerville, Ohio.

Judge McLeod gained his rudimentary education under the conditions and 
influences marking the pioneer epoch in the history of Ohio, and though he was 
but fifteen years of age at the time of the inception of the Civil war he gave 
prompt evidence of his intrinsic and youthful patriotism, by tendering his 
services in defense of the Union. In response to President Lincoln's first 
call for 300,000 men, he enlisted, on the 27th of August, 1861, as a private 
in Company I, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry—Capt. J. Dyer and Col. 
Thomas Ford. The regiment was mobilized at Camp Denison, Ohio, and thence 
proceeded to West Virginia, where it met with genuine hardships in its first 
camp, at Cheat Mountain. In crossing the Allegany Mountains the forces of 
General Lee were in front of the Union command in which Judge McLeod was 
aligned, but the gallant soldiers of the Union pushed forward to aid in the 
capture of the City of Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy. At Staunton, 
Virginia, the command was opposed by the forces under Gen. Stonewall Jackson, 
and on the 9th of June, 1862, the battle of Port Republic was fought. In the 
following September Judge McLeod arrived with his command at Harper's Ferry, 
and here they were captured by the Confederate forces under Jackson, 
Longstreet and Hill. The captives were taken to a point near Baltimore, 
Maryland and upon receiving paroles were sent to the prison camp in the City 
of Chicago. In February, 1863, their exchange was effected and the Thirty-
second Ohio Regiment came into rendezvous at Cleveland, Ohio, where it was 
armed and otherwise equipped for further field service. The regiment joined 
Grant's army at Memphis, Tennessee, and took part in the Vicksburg campaign. 
Judge McLeod participated in the valiant charge on the works and 
fortifications surrounding the City of Vicksburg, and with others of his 
command assisted in carrying the ladders used in climbing the Confederate 
breastworks at Fort Hill. Prior to this he had taken part in the preliminary 
battle of Champion's Hill, Mississippi. In this battle, his regiment, which 
was a part of Logan's division, in Stephenson's brigade, captured a battery of 
six guns. The command remained at Vicksburg and performed its part in the 
siege until the capitulation of the city, July 4, 1863, and there the most of 
the members of the Thirty-second Ohio Regiment re-enlisted, as veterans, after 
which the command accompanied General Sherman in the ever memorable Atlanta 
campaign, taking part in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain and later in that of 
Atlanta, July 22d and July 28th at Ezra Church, and at Jonesboro, which 
virtually marked the close of that campaign. The regiment then followed Hood 
back toward Tennessee and kept that able Confederate commander under 
surveillance until he had crossed the Tennessee River, after which it returned 
South and accompanied Sherman's forces on the march from Atlanta to the sea. 
At Savannah General Sherman embarked most of his troops on transports which 
proceeded to Buford, South Carolina, and the Thirty-second Ohio was one of the 
regiments for which this provision was made. It took active part in the 
campaign through South Carolina, scattering the straggling Confederate 
commands that were attempting to make their way to North Carolina, to join 
Johnston's army. The last battle in which Judge McLeod took part was that of 
Bentonville, and about this time word was received of the surrender of General 
Lee. Judge McLeod was at Raleigh at the time when General Sherman and Johnston 
arranged their historic meeting and conference at Goldsboro. Sherman's army 
marched on to Washington to take part in the Grand Review of the victorious 
Union forces. The whole army of the Tennessee was ordered to the western 
department, to aid in the subjugation of the forces under Gen. Richard Taylor 
in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, and was at Louisville at the time when the 
terms of his surrender were arranged. There also the troops of the corps 
received their pay and the Ohio command in which discharge—three years and 
eleven months after the date of his enlistment. He had participated in battles 
and skirmishes to the number of more than thirty-two, but was never wounded. 
He celebrated his nineteenth birthday anniversary one month and eleven days 
after his discharge from the army. It is hardly necessary to state that Judge 
McLeod perpetuates the more gracious memories and associations of his youthful 
military career by active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic.

After the close of the war Judge McLeod set to himself the task of 
supplementing the meager education which had been his when he subordinated all 
other interests to go forth in defense of the Nation's integrity. He finally 
became a student in an academy in his native county, and while thus applying 
himself he also taught a class in geometry in the same school. He knew and 
could recite by number every one of the 180 propositions in the nine books of 
geometry, and otherwise gave evidence of his specially receptive memory and 
close application to study. After his first year in the academy he was 
licensed to teach school, and he taught two terms in his native state before 
coming to Missouri, in 1869. In 1870 he established his home in the 
neighborhood in which he has resided during the long intervening years and in 
which he has a circle of friends that is circumscribed only by that of his 
acquaintances. The judge is a man of liberal education and fine 
intellectuality, his maturity of judgment and broad views representing the 
result of years of long and practical experience. For fully a quarter of a 
century Judge McLeod continued to teach in the schools of Missouri during the 
winter terms, and as soon as his accumulations justified the action he began 
to make investments in land, his first purchase having been ninety-eight acres 
of his present estate, this land having been unreclaimed and he having paid 
$1,000 for the property. In connection with his operations as a farmer and 
stock-grower progress and distinctive success have followed the well ordered 
endeavors of Judge McLeod, as he is now the owner of a well improved and 
valuable landed estate of 540 acres, divided into two farms.

Judge McLeod has been a stalwart in the camp of the republican party, which 
has ever been much in the minority in his home county and district, so that he 
naturally failed of election when he appeared as republican candidate for 
sheriff on one occasion and for that of circuit clerk on another. His 
eligibility and personal popularity overcame the partisan handicap, however, 
when he was elected county judge of Gentry County, and he carried his own 
township by a vote of nearly two to one over his opponent, likewise a resident 
of the same township. He served one term, and notwithstanding the fact that 
this republican court did its duty to the taxpayers, the letting of the county 
printing to the lowest responsible bidder caused the defeat of the two 
republican judges before the next caucus of the party. Judge McLeod is 
president of the Bank of Denver, a substantial and popular financial 
institution of this section of the state, and he is one of the local and 
progressive citizens of the state that has long represented his home. Both he 
and his wife are active members of the Christian Church.

On the 17th of June, 1869, was solemnized the marriage of Judge McLeod to Miss 
Caroline Green, who was born and reared in Gentry County and who is a daughter 
of William and Mary (Rambo) Green. 

Charles died at the age of nineteen years, Lovina at the age of twentyone, and 
Onis W. at the age of thirteen months; Cora M. is the wife of William 
Henderson, of Gentryville; Hattie is.the wife of Edward Todd, of Gentry 
County; Dr. Walter McLeod was graduated in a medical college in the City of 
Chicago and is now engaged in the practice of his profession in Illinois; 
Miles E. is a progressive farmer of his native county; Elizabeth is the wife 
of Dr. Ira S. Abplanalp, engaged in the practice of medicine in the State of 
North Dakota, Mrs. Abplanalp being a graduate of the Missouri Normal School at 
Maryville; Albert is a representative farmer of Gentry County; Bessie is the 
wife of Christopher C. Spainhow [sic-s/b Spainhower], of Gentry County; and 
Carrie is the wife of Henry Seat, of this county.

SOURCE: pp1692-1695 of “A History of Northwest Missouri” Volume 3 edited by 
Walter Williams; Chicago-New York, The Lewis Publishing Company; 1915.


Additional Comments:
Edward Miles and wife Caroline (Green) McLeod are buried in Prairie Chapel 
Cemetery in Denver, Worth County, Missouri.  They share a double headstone.  
Edward also has a bronze military marker.

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