Eighth Generation

4553. Thomas Wood LEONARD Jr.³⁵⁶⁷ was born on 12 November 1864 in NY. He was a cabinet maker by trade. He helped Thomas Alva Edison wire the First Presbyterian Church in Roselle, NJ, for electric lighting. This church became the first church in the world with electric lighting.

Was he the Thomas W. Leonard, 17, attending a military school in Chester, PA, in the 1880 Census?

Marie Louise ENNIS was born on 13 September 1856 in Brooklyn, NY.³⁵⁶⁸ In the 1900 Census, she and the children were living in Linden township, Roselle borough, NJ. They had had 4 children, and all 4 were living.

Thomas Wood LEONARD Jr. and Marie Louise ENNIS had the following children:

6095	i.	Thomas Wood LEONARD was born in October 1883 in NY.²⁹⁷⁸
6096	ii.	Jennie L. LEONARD was born in June 1885 in NY.²⁹⁷⁸
6097	iii.	Gilbert D. LEONARD was born on 8 October 1886 in NY.²⁹⁷⁸ He was baptized in Brooklyn, NY, according to New York Catholic baptism records.
+6098	iv.	John Dunbar LEONARD.