Byram Leonard (1879)

LEONARD, KINCADE

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 10/6/2007 at 17:24:12

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
November 13, 1879

Byram Leonard, one of the prominent young attorneys of Winterset, died on the 6th of typhoid fever.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
November 13, 1879
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The Death of Byram Leonard.

DIED – In Winterset, Iowa, on the night of November 6th, of typhoid fever, Byram Leonard, aged 30 years.

This death is a sad blow alike to the stricken family, to the church, the bar and the community at large.

The deceased was the eldest son, and law partner of Hon. John Leonard, late District Judge of the Capital District of Iowa.

He was born in Ohio and moved to Winterset in 1853; was educated at the Central University of Pella; read law and was admitted to the bar in 1871.

In 1874 he was married to Miss Addie Kinkade. They have but one child, Minerva May, a beautiful little girl, two and a half years old.

No words can give expression to the sorrow that broods over the city, by reason of the death of this estimable citizen. A young man, in the very prime of early manhood, full of the promise and possibilities of life, happy in the ties and attachments of his home and fireside, a devoted and zealous worker in the church and Sabbath school, enthusiastic in the pursuit of his chosen profession, warm-hearted and generous to his fellow men, he will be missed in many a place of endearment and usefulness for years to come. The Circuit Court now in session at Winterset will adjourn to do honor to the distinguished young member of her bar, who has been admitted to the Court whose Judge is the eternal God.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
November 13, 1879
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DEATH OF BYRAM LEONARD, ESQ.

The sad, but not unexpected word, passed from neighbor to neighbor as they met upon our streets Friday morning, Byram Leonard is dead. Yes, Byram is no more of earth. He passed peacefully away on Thursday evening before the hour of midnight. And Winterset then lost one of her brightest and most promising sons; the church to which he belonged one of its most active and consistent members; the home circle a loving and tender husband and father, a noble son, the kindest of brothers.

Byram Leonard will be greatly missed and his loss deeply mourned. His death was caused by typhoid fever. All the summer he has been ailing, and when the disease struck him he did not have the strength to throw it off.

The deceased was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio, on the 12th day of August, 1849. His father, Judge Leonard, moved to this county in 1853. Byram graduated at the Pella University in 1869, after a three years’ course. After reading law in the office of Leonard & Mott for two years he was, in 1872, admitted to the Bar. He was a partner of his father, the Hon. John Leonard, when he was elected to the District Bench. Afterwards he practiced his profession as the senior member of the firm of Leonard & Steele. After the term of his father ended he again entered into business relations with him.

In May 1874, he was married to Miss Addie Kinkade, one of the most estimable of Winterset’s young ladies. To them was born a daughter – Mabel – now about two years of age.

We are sure we are authorized to tender, in behalf of all our people, sympathy and condolence to the young wife, now widow, of our dead young friend.

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