LEONARD, REV. JOSIAH

LEONARD ISHAM, BRINTNELL

Posted By: Administrator
Date: 10/4/2001 at 09:02:05

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

REV. JOSIAH LEONARD; residence, Seventh avenue, east of Third street; is a native of Johnstown, Fulton Co., N. Y; he grew up and received his education there and studied for the ministry; after completing his theological studies, he began preaching in 1840; he came West to Fulton, Whiteside Co., Ill., in 1856, and became Pastor of the Presbyterian Church ; he continued preaching in Fulton and Garden Plains for twelve years; since then, he has had no pastoral charge; though he has preached regularly; he preached at Newton and Albany for four years, and is now supplying the church at Spring Valley, near Fulton. Mr. Leonard has been preaching since 1840, and has had an experience of nearly a quarter of a century in church and pastoral work on the bank of the Mississippi River, and, during that length of time, there are few pastors who have been and are more familiar with the needs of the people and the church than he. He married Miss Eliza Isham, a native of Ulster Co., N. Y.; they have two children-James B., living in Belvidere, Ill., and Mary C., now Mrs. George S. Brintnell, of Chicago.