Bios.Tulsa,OK DOYLE, Leslie L. 
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Posted by Linda Ricco on Sun, 08 Nov 1998
Surname: DOYLE, VENNARD, VORIES
LESLIE L. DOYLE
Vol. 3, p. 1173 
One of the well-known figures in the life insurance business in Oklahoma is Leslie L. DOYLE, state manager for the Germania Life Insurance Company, with offices at Tulsa. His experience in this line of endeavor has covered a period of a quarter of a century, from the time when he entered upon his career, fresh from college halls, and during this time he has been located in various parts of the country. His advent in Oklahoma occurred in the year 1910, and since then he has so impressed his abilities upon his associates that he is accounted one the leading men in this field. 
Mr. Doyle was born in Henry County, Kentucky, December 30, 1872, and is a son of George W. and Alice M. (VORIES) Doyle, both natives of the Blue Grass State. The father, born in 1840, was a wealthy farmer and tobacco grower, and dealt extensively in that article, and at the time of his death, in 1907, was known as a well-to-do citizen. He was a member of the Christian Church, was past master of the Masonic lodge at Smithfield, Kentucky, and in political matters was a democrat. Mrs. Doyle, who was born in 1840, passed away many years before her husband, dying at the age of thirty-four. She was also a member of the Baptist Church, and they were the parents of three children: Leslie L.; one who died in infancy; and Edmond C. 
Leslie L. Doyle grew up on his father's plantation in Henry County, Kentucky, and received his early education in the public schools of his native vicinity. He subsequently enrolled as a student at Smithfield College, Smithfield, Kentucky, and was duly graduated there from with the class of 1890. In that same year he removed to Wichita, Kansas, where he entered the employ of the New York Life Insurance Company, and received his introduction to the business which he was to make his life's work. After about four years spent at Wichita, Mr. Doyle was made traveling auditor for the same company and sent to Chicago, from which city he covered a certain district which included the cities of Detroit, Michigan, St. Louis, Missouri, and Peoria, Illinois, and continued to be thus engaged until 1900, when he was sent as manager of the business in South Dakota. This position he retained for five years more, when he severed his connections with the New York Life Insurance Company to accept an offer with the Germania Life Insurance Company, at Little Rock, Arkansas, and remained there until 1910, when he came to Tulsa, Oklahoma, as state manager for that company, his offices being at No. 406 First National Bank Building. 
Mr. Doyle is a democrat in politics, but has not been a seeker for political preferment, although he has been ready to lend his aid to enterprises which promise to contribute to the general civic welfare. He is well known in Masonry, belonging to Delta Lodge No. 425, A. F. & A.M.; Forest Home Chapter No. 16, at Clarendon, Arkansas; Trinity Commandery No. 20, K. T., and Akdar Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S. He has numerous friends in club life at Tulsa, and he and Mrs. Doyle are general favorites in social circles. 
On December 6, 1899, Mr. Doyle was married to Miss Josephine Malcolm VENNARD, who was born at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and to this union there have been born one son and two daughters: Walker Vennard, and Alice F. and Frances, who are twins. 
Transcribed by Linda Ricco, November 6, 1998