Ninth Generation


6098. John Dunbar LEONARD was born on 25 January 1890 in Roselle, NJ.3568 He died in 1958 at the age of 68 in Aberdeen, NC.3568 He was a graduate of the Pratt Institute in New York City. He worked for the Bell Telephone system, helping to lay the first telepone cable in the Panama Canal Zone. He joined the NJ National Guard in 1906. He served as a Lt. in the US Army in World War I and after the war organized the 114th Infantry Battalion in Elizabeth, NJ. He served in World War II at Ft. Sam Houston in Texas, in the Signal Corps as a major with the 8th Service Command.

In the 1900 Census, he is living with his mother and brothers and sister in Roselle, Union Co., NJ. He is living with his mother in Roselle and working for the telephone company in the 1910 Census.

John Dunbar LEONARD and Anne Elizabeth LUDEKING were married on 8 April 1912 in Elizabeth, Union Co., NJ.3568 Anne Elizabeth LUDEKING was born on 14 January 1889 in Paterson, NJ.3568

John Dunbar LEONARD and Anne Elizabeth LUDEKING had the following children:

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Robert Dunbar LEONARD.

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John Frederick LEONARD was born on 30 May 1913 in NJ.3568