OBIT: Jacob Schindel LEISENRING, 1910, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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J. S. LEISENRING ESQ., DEAD.

Prominent Member of the Blair County Bar Dies In The West

  Word was received in Tyrone on Saturday, that J. S. Leisenring a 
prominent member of the Blair county bar had died at 9 o'clock, Sunday 
morning at the Wayne Hotel in Detroit, Michigan.  Mr. Leisenring's 
death was not unexpected.  Jacob Shindel Leisenring was a prominent 
member of the Blair county bar, who, by force of energetic application 
to his profession, acquired a practice that ranks second to none in 
this section, was a son of Gideon an Louisa Henrietta (Shindel)  
Leisenring, and was born at Selinsgrove, [April*] 2, 1847.  The family 
is descended from old German stock, and was planted in America prior to 
1750 by John Conrad Leisenring, (great-great-grandfather) who emigrated 
from Heidelberg, Germany, and settled in what is now Montgomery, but 
was then Philadelphia county, Pa.  
  Mr. Leisenring was admitted to the bar of Blair county in 1873 and 
has been in constant practice ever since.  He was at one time, a member 
of the firm of Stevens and Leisenring, composed of A. A. Stevens, Esq., 
of Tyrone, and himself.  After leaving Tyrone, he removed to  Altoona 
and associated himself in the practice of law with A. V. Dively, Esq., 
under the name of Dively & Leisenring.  This firm dissolved and he 
continued in the practice of law by himself until 1904, when he formed 
a co-partnership with Harry F. Walters, Esq., under the firm name of 
Leisenring and Walters, which continued until the time of his death.  
  On September 1, 1875,  Mr. Leisenring was united in marriage with 
Anna M. Cherry, of Altoona.  To them have been born two children: 
Henrietta Sarah, who was born July 31, 1876, and Annie Lydia, born 
November 23, 1877, and who died July 27, 1878.  
  Mr. Leisenring leaves to survive him his wife and daughter above 
named and a brother in California.  
  Politically, Mr. Leisenring was a staunch Republican and during his 
residence in West Virginia, where an active adherence to the principles 
of his party was not always safe, he took an active part in the 
politics of that state.  The funeral arrangements have not been made.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 24, 1910


* See Leisenring, Jacob Shindel, page 300, at
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/bios/wiley/wiley09.txt