JOHN LESLIE
John Leslie was born in county Donegal, Ireland, seven miles from Londonderry, in 1833. When he was seven years of age he came to this country with two elder sisters and located in Philadelphia, was educated in the public schools. In 1856 he came west to Cass county, where his brother, Joseph Leslie, then lived. In 1862 he enlisted as a volunteer in company I, Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, and was soon afterwards discharged for disability. He then went to the mountains and was engaged in mining two years, and returned home to Cass County, Iowa, and bought a farm in Edna township, where he still resides. In 1869 and 1870 be was a member of the board of supervisors of the county, and in 1874 and 1875 was assessor of Edna township, and afterwards school treasurer. In 1878 he was married to Mary E. Cudney, a native of New York State.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 757-758.
