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590 SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
faithful and efficient clerk of the city of New
Bedford, was born Aug. 17, 1818, in South Yarmouth.
In the public schools of his dative town
and in the Friends' Boarding School at Providence
his education was acquired. He became
a clerk in Seth Akin's store, first, but subse-
quently was associated with his father. Later
he went to New York, and became a partner
in the firm of Wetherell, Sprague & Co., oil
and iron merchants who were connected with
Samuel. Leonard and Lazell, Perkins & Co., of
New Bedford. Mr. Leonard finally withdrew
from this concern, and returning to New Bedford
engaged in the lumber business with
Augustus A. ciation continued for about four years. He
then returned to New Bedford and became an
employee
Greene, under the firm name of
Leonard & Greene. He made a number of
business changes, being several times in the
oil business with his father and brother Samuel,
either as partner or bookkeeper, engaging in
the manufacture of cotton with his father at
Suncook, N. H. He joined the fortune hunters
in the rush to California in 1849, and on his
return east conducted a lumber yard in Charles-
in the city treasurer's office for a
year. He then received a commission as assistant
assessor of internal revenue under Charles
G. Davis, assessor-at-large for the district, for
a term of three years. Upon the consolidation
of the district he retired from the position.
He was next commissioned by the county
commissioners to copy the old town proprietary
records, which he finished, and they are now on
file in the office of the register of deeds for
the New Bedford district. For the next nine
or ten years he was employed by the A. & W.
Sprague Manufacturing Company, of Providence,
R. I., continuing with the trustee, Zachariah
Chaffee, after the Sprague failure. He began
with the Spragues as clerk and finally became
buying agent for the company. Upon the
expiration of this service he entered the employ
of the Silver Spring Bleaching and Dyeing
Company of Providence, ex-Gov. Henry Lippett
being treasurer, and remained there until the
year of his father's death, when he returned to
New Bedford. He was first appointed city
clerk under the administration of Mayor William
T. Soule May 8, 1879, and elected the
town, Mass., afterward reengaging in the oil
business at New Bedforc^, as the head of the
firm of Leonard, Sturtey'nt & Co. Upon the
dissolution of this partn\.'-ship he returned to
the oflice of his father. On the death of Sauford
S. Horton, in 1862, he was elected clerk
for the city of New Bedford, which office he
filled until his death, July 18, 1879. His in-
telligence, unblemished character, faithfulness
to duty, geniality and quiet manliness secured
for him universal esteem and continued re-
election as city clerk during violent political
changes, he never having any opposition. He
also served one year as a member of the school
committee.
Mr. Leonard was a member of the Society of
Friends, a man of unswerving religious conviction
and strict conscientiousness, and was
without an enemy. In 1841 he married Deborah
Allen Butler, daughter of Daniel Butler,
of New Bedford. She died Dec. 16, 1901.
Their children were: Robert Taber, Daniel
Butler, Gertrude Hoyer, Henry Allen, Mary
L., Roland Allen, Milton H. and Mary Butler-
(VIII) Daniel Butler Leonard, son of
Henry T., born in New Bedford April 6, 1844,
was educated in the public schools of his native
town and in the private school conducted
by Prof. John Boadle, an Englishman. Under
the latter gentleman he also received private
instruction in contemplation of a college course,
but instead of entering college went in 1860
to New York City as bookkeeper for his uncle,
Thomas W. Leonard. After a short time he
was made a partner in the business, which asso-
following October. He was reelected annually
from April, 1880, to April, 1902, when he was
elected for a term of three years, and was re-
elected in 1905 and 1908, making a term of
thirty-one years, or forty-eight years that this
office was filled by father and son. Mr. Leonard
was the best known of any of the city
officials, because of his long contimious service,
and he was one of the best informed men in
the State on municipal laws, his opinion being
frequently sought in complicated matters
of a legal nature. Hi§ death occurred March
13, 1911, in his sixty-seventh year. Mr. Leonard
never took an active part in public rnat-
ters. He was a Republican in political be-
lief.
Fraternally Mr. Leonard belonged to R. A.
Pierce Post, No. 190, G. A. R., of New Bedford,
having enlisted during the Civil war in
Company E, 3d Massachusetts Regiment; he
was at once transferred to the commissary department
of the State. He was a member of
the Knights of Pythias; of Acushnet Lodge,
I. 0. 0. F., of New Bedford, in which he was
the fourth oldest member ; of Star in the East
Lodge, A. F. & A. M. ; of Adoniram Chapter,
R. A. M. ; of New Bedford Council, R. & S. M. ;
and of Sutton Commandery, No. 16, K. T.
Mr. Leonard married July 28, 1869, Charlotte
E; Howard. They had no children.
(VIII) Dr. Milton Hall Leonard, son of