Leonard Edgar Johns and Valeria Whitely

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Husband Leonard Edgar Johns ¹

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           Born: 1 Jan 1846 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Leonard Shryock Johns (1805-1871) 2
         Mother: Myra Hull Adams (1820-1907) 1

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Wife Valeria Whitely ³

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           Born:  - Baton Rouge, LA
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         Father: Gen. R. H. K. Whitely (      -      ) 3
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1 M Leonard Shryock Johns ³

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2 F Hester Whitely Johns ³

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3 F Myra Adams Johns ³

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4 M Robert Kirkwood Johns ³

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5 M Richard Lee Johns ³

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6 M Arthur Whitely Johns ³

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7 M Herbert Adams Johns ³

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8 M Louis Edgar Johns ³

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9 M Henry Kirkwood Johns ³

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General Notes: Husband - Leonard Edgar Johns

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He was a student at the Western University, now the University of Pittsburgh, but was prevented by illness from being graduated with his class in 1868. In 1862 he enlisted in the Fifteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. Subsequently in 1863 in Knapp's Battery, and in the Artillery Battalion in 1864. In all he served from 1862 to 1865. He was at Washington at the time of Early's attack on that city. At the close of the war he returned to Pittsburgh, and was in the general office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company three years, and from there went to the Western University. In 1868 he studied law with Hon. George Shiras, later a justice of the supreme court of the United States, was admitted in 1870, and remained with him several years, and was assistant solicitor of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He then went to Clarion county, Pennsylvania, where he practiced law until 1882, and upon his return to Pittsburgh he organized the firm of Reno & Johns in May of that year. He then resided in Pittsburgh, and represented some of the most important fire insurance companies in the country. He was vice-president of the Board of Underwriters of Allegheny County, and president and director of Phosphate Products Company, and a director in several other companies. He was a trustee of Duquesne Post, No. 259, Grand Army of the Republic, and for many years was a member of the Pittsburgh Chess Club, and during the greater part of that time was chairman of the executive committee of the same. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Society Sons of American Revolution. In politics an independent Republican, he was at one time a member of the common council of the city of Pittsburgh. [GPHWP, 362]

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General Notes: Wife - Valeria Whitely

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She was reared in various army posts until her marriage.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 362.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 361.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 363.