William Lewis Leonard

LEONARD, YOUNG

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/8/2004 at 22:51:42

William L. Leonard, Winterset, physician and surgeon; born in Knox county, Ohio, October 6, 1823; he was educated at the Fredericktown (O.) Academy and the Norwalk (O.) College, and graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1852, and from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1874; he began the practice of his profession in Chesterville, Ohio, but after one year removed to Cheviot, Ohio, and formed a partnership with his preceptor, Dr. M., H. Litzenburg; in 1855, he, in conjunction with his partner, removed successfully an ovarian tumor weighing forty-five pounds, and was the first in his locality to apply the Esmaich apparatus in amputations and the treatment of varicose ulcers, and Sayres; plaster jackets in Potts’ disease; in 1859 he came to this county, and in September 1862, was appointed assistant-surgeon of the 39th Iowa Inf., which position he filled until April, 1863, when he was appointed post-surgeon at Corinth, Mississippi, on the staff of Gen. G. M. Dodge, in which position he continued until October, 1863, when he was commissioned surgeon of the 7th Illinois Inf., and remained with this regiment until the close of the war; he is a member of the Iowa State Medical Society, and of the Madison County Medical Association, of which he was elected president July 3, 1873, and secretary January 6, 1876; he published in the Cincinnati Clinic of May 22, 1875, a review of an article on malpractice; he has held the office of county treasurer one term; he married Miss Elizabeth Young, of Knox county, Ohio, December 5, 1843; owns 270 acres of land.

Taken from the “Physicians and Surgeons of the United States.