BIOGRAPHIES: John LEONARD, Rice Lake, Barron County, WI

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John Leonard, surveyor, Rice Lake, Barron county.  The subject of this 
sketch was born in Middlesex county, England, near the city of London, 
March 21, 1828.  He is a son of Samuel and Mary Elizabeth (Taylor) Leonard.  
Of the seven children born to this union our subject is the sixth child.  
In 1832 the family immigrated to America and settled in Troy, N. Y., where 
they remained until 1849, when they moved to Sauk county, Wis.  The father 
was a shoemaker.  Both parents are deceased and buried at Reedsburg, Wis.

At the age of sixteen years John Leonard shipped as a sailor on board an 
ocean vessel and followed this calling until he was twenty-one.  In 1849 
he came to Wisconsin and entered the land on which his father located.  He 
was in St. Paul in 1851, and upon the upper Wisconsin river.  He has 
traveled quite extensively; has navigated the Mississippi river from St. 
Paul to New Orleans, and in 1859 he crossed the plains to California with 
an ox team, returning via Cape Horn.  He was in the United States Navy in 
the Mexican war, after which he returned to Sauk county and was engaged in 
farming and hop-raising, but this venture proved disastrous, and in 1872 he 
came to Barron county and entered a homestead in township thirty-three, 
range ten, where he remained until 1886.  He was county surveyor in Barron 
county in 1873, and in 1874 he began surveying for the Knapp, Stout & Co. 
Company, which position he has retained until the present time.  He has 
held various offices in Barron county.  He is a member of the Presbyterian 
church and a democrat in politics.  In the year 1855 he married Miss Susan 
E. Locke, a native of Tioga county, Pa., whose parents were pioneers of 
Sauk county, Wis., and are now living in Canton, Wis.  To this union have 
been born five children:  Jane E. (deceased), John J. (a farmer in Stanley 
township), James F. (Stanley township), William A. and Eugene C.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", page 618.