David Leech and Rhoda Findley

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Husband David Leech ^{1 2}

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           Born: Bet 1788 and 1802 - Pennsylvania
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           Died: 3 Nov 1858 - Leechburg, Armstrong Co, PA 3
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         Father: John Leech (1767-1864) 2 4
         Mother: Jane Morrison (1769-1841) 1 2

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Rhoda Findley ²

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           Born:  - Pennsylvania
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           Died:  - Leechburg, Armstrong Co, PA
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• Note: This may be the same person as : Rhoda Findley.

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Children

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1 M Addison Leech ^{2 5}

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           Born: 20 Feb 1824 - Slippery Rock, Butler Co, PA 2
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           Died: 10 Apr 1899 - Erie, Erie Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Mary Isabel Watson (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 8 Jan 1852 6

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2 M William F. Leech ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - David Leech

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He was reared and educated in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and he became one of the representative citizens and business men of that section. He was the founder of the town of Leechburg, Armstrong County, where he established and operated flouring and saw mills, and he was also the head of a transportation company which operated a line of boats on the old canal between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Like his father, he became a skilled civil engineer, according to the standard of his times, and when a young man he came to Erie and assisted in the construction of the old Waterford plank road, the government highway between Erie and Buffalo.
He and his wife had five sons and one daughter, all deceased before 1909.

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

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

3 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 167.

4 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 808, 1138.

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

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