Hamilton County OhArchives Biographies.....Leyman, Harry Stoll 1873 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com July 15, 2005, 8:56 pm Author: John C Hover, et.al. Harry Stoll Leyman. In the automobile industry as represented by the progressive dealers of Cincinnati, few men are better or more popularly known than Harry Stoll Leyman, the representative of the famous Buick car. Mr. Leyman is an Ohioan by nativity, born at Crestline, Crawford county, February 7, 1873, a son of Henry Templeton and Susan (Fitzsimmons) Leyman. Henry T. Leyman was formerly identified with railroad affairs, and for some years was master mechanic for the T. & A. A. and N. M. railways, residing at various points, particularly Crestline and Columbus, but since 1909 has been a resident of Cincinnati, where he is the owner of a well-equipped automobile salesroom and warehouse and has built up a creditable business of gratifying proportions. The graded schools of Crestline furnished Harry S. Leyman with his early educational training, following which he accompanied his parents to Columbus, in which city he attended high school. Like many other men now identified with the automobile industry, he became connected therewith through the medium of the bicycle business, having been connected, after his school days, with the Lozier Manufacturing Company, builders of the Cleveland bicycle. About this time the automobile industry, then in its infancy, was beginning to make its presence felt, and Mr. Leyman, looking ahead into the future and seeing the changes that were to come about, became secretary and treasurer of the International Motor Car Company, of Toledo, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Ind. Later he was made sales manager for the Pope Motor Car Company, of Toledo, Ohio, a position which he filled for ten years, and in the spring of 1909 located at Cincinnati, where he opened up a salesroom to distribute Buick automobiles. Since that time his business has grown in substantial measure, covering all of Southern Ohio, the entire state of Kentucky and a part of West Virginia, and his salesroom is one of the largest and most beautiful in the city. He is widely known to the automobile trade, being, for several years, President of the Cincinnati Automobile Dealers' Association, and has numerous important connections in the industry. Mr. Leyman is a Republican in his political allegiance. His military experience covers several years as executive officer in the Toledo Battalion of the Ohio Naval Brigade, with the rank of lieutenant As a fraternalist, he is a Knight Templar of the York Rite degree of Masonry, has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and belongs to the Mystic Shrine; and his other connections are numerous, including membership in the Queen City Club. Business Men's Club, the Hamilton Club, of Hamilton, Ohio; and the Toledo Club and Toledo Yacht Club, of Toledo, Ohio. June 14, 1907, Mr. Leyman was united in marriage with Belle, daughter of Chauncey Peck, of Toledo, and to this union there have been born four children: Grace Templeton, Elizabeth, Susannah, and Harry, Jr., all of whom are attending school. Mr. Leyman is also director of the Gibson Hotel Company, Gibson Realty Company, Burnett Hotel Company and The First National Bank of Cincinnati. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hamilton/bios/leyman10gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb