Addison Leech and Mary Isabel Watson

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Husband Addison Leech ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Feb 1824 - Slippery Rock, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: David Leech (Bet 1788/1802-1858) 1 3
         Mother: Rhoda Findley (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 8 Jan 1852 4

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Wife Mary Isabel Watson ⁴

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           Born:  - Armstrong Co, PA
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         Father: John Smiley Watson (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Mary Reynolds (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M John Watson Leech ⁴

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         Spouse: Nellie Clark (      -      ) 4

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2 F Mary Reynolds Leech ⁴

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3 M William Findley Leech ⁴

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4 F Isadora Leech ⁴

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         Spouse: Chester W. Bliss (      -      ) 4

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5 M Addison Leech, Jr. ⁴

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6 F Isabella Leech ⁴

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         Spouse: Wilson A. Luce (      -      ) 4

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7 M Henry Lansing Leech ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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8 F Ella Leech ^{2 4}

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           Born:  - Erie, Erie Co, PA
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         Spouse: Edward Ditmars Wetmore (1861-      ) 2 5

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9 F Louise Leech ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Addison Leech

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He gained his early educational training in the common schools of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, whither his parents removed when he was about two years of age, and later he was afforded the advantages of Allegheny College, at Meadville. After leaving school he became associated with his father's business operations, and in this connection became an expert at the miller's trade. The Leech mills made an exhibit of their products at the London exposition, and there Addison received a bronze medal for flour which he had made. In 1846 the Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia, conferred upon him a silver medal, for a similar exhibit.
At the inception of the Civil war he tendered his services in defense of the Union. He was appointed assistant commissary with rank of major, with which department he was identified until the close of the conflict.
After the war Mr. Leech returned to his home in Leechburg, where he continued in business until 1868, the winter of which year he passed in St. Paul, Minnesota. In the meanwhile his brother, William F. Leech, of Philadelphia, at that time identified with the Pennsylvania Railroad, had purchased a grain elevator in Erie, Pennsylvania, for his company, known as the Anchor Line Transportation Company, of which the elevator and the subsequent elevators were a part, and in the spring of 1869 Addison Leech came to Erie to assume charge of the elevator business. He became associated in the ownership of the same and was identified with operations there until 1880, when he went to the territory of Dakota and purchased large tracts of wheat lands for his sons,-in what is now the state of North Dakota. Thereafter he passed a portion of each summer in Dakota and his winters at his home, in Erie. He found much satisfaction in these annual changes, and he continued to give a general supervision to his various business and capitalistic interests until his death, at the venerable age of seventy-five years.
Mr. Leech was never an aspirant for public office but was a stanch adherent of the Republican party. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and his religious faith was that of the Methodist church. His wife was a devoted member of the St. Paul's Episcopal church.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Isabel Watson

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She was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and was a child at the time of the family removal to St. Louis, Missouri, where she was reared and educated.

1 John Miller, 20th Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 227.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 416.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1138.

4 John Miller, 20th Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 228.

5 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 613.