Clearfield County PA Archives Obituaries.....Leonard, Zenos  July 14, 1857
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Raftsman's journal. (Clearfield, Pa.): July 29, 1857
Died on the 14th inst., at his residence in Sibley, Missouri, Zenos Leonard, Esq.,
in the 49th year of his age, after an illness of three days, from inflammation of
the brain.
Mr. L. was a native of this vicinity, and son of the late Abm. Leonard, of Bradford
twp. About the year 1830 he left his fathers house, and for a short
time acting as clerk in a relatives store in Pittsburg, he joined a party of men for
the purpose of crossing the Rocky mountains, exploring the Columbia river and the
Pacific coast, there to trade, trap and barter with the Indians and Spaniards of
those remote regions, and if possible to find out more of the realities that have
since been discovered in that golden quarter, of which a pretty fair narrative is
familiar to all the youth of our county, as he sketched off one, which was published
during his short visit home in 1835 or '36. On again bidding his friends adieu he
went immediately to the spot where he died, having selected that point then a
wilderness, far beyond any habitation on his way back from the mountains, as the
scene of his future operations. Here he soon
found the tide of emigration to follow, and of course he quickly realized tho reward
of an enterprising and sagacious mind, in the rapid increase and value of bis
possessions; as a town, warehouse and wharf and Leonard's landing, soon became
realities. Mr. L. was a widower, and now leaves but an only son to cherish his
memory. All who remember him in his youth admired him for his social qualities, his
keenness of perception, and the nobleness of his character generally.

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