Biography

01/28/1800 - 08/28/1872

LEONARD, Anson, a Representative from Crawford County; born, January 28, 1800 in Worthington, Hampshire County, Ma.; school teacher; farmer; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1850 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1851 term; justice of the peace; engaged, real estate; judge of election, Crawford County (1870); died, August 28, 1872 in Penn Line, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; interred, Penn Line Cemetery, Linesville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.