Sixth Generation

1239. Hon. Stephen Banks LEONARD^1359,1360 was born on 15 April 1793 in Wall Street, New York City, NY. He died on 8 May 1876 at the age of 83 in Owego, Tioga Co., NY. He was buried in Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Owego, Tioga Co., NY. Stephen was buried at Presbyterian Burying Ground in Owego, Tioga Co., NY. He moved with his parents to Owego, NY at age 10 (1803). The house where he was born on Wall Street is now occupied by the Custom House. In Owego, he learned the printers art. He was employed in Southwick's printing office, along with Thurlow Weed. He was Postmaster 1816 to 1820 and 1844-1849, editor and publisher of the Owego Gazette, 1814 to 1835, and a member of Congress 1835-37 and 1839-41, elected first as a Jacksonian and second as a Democrat. He was also deputy US Marshal. After his terms in Congress, he became a farmer.

Hon. Stephen Banks LEONARD and Esther Henrietta SPERRY were married on 22 February 1818 in Owego, Tioga Co., NY. Esther Henrietta SPERRY, daughter of Jared SPERRY and Esther BOSTWICK, was born on 6 September 1798 in New Milford, CT. She died in 1879 at the age of 81. She was a beautiful woman. They took their wedding journey over primitive roads to the ancestral home of her mothers in CT.

Hon. Stephen Banks LEONARD and Esther Henrietta SPERRY had the following children:

+2446	i.	William Boardman LEONARD.
2447	ii.	Hermon Camp LEONARD^1350,1361 was born on 31 January 1823 in Owego, Tioga Co., NY. He died on 17 December 1916 at the age of 93 in Portland, Multinomah Co., OR. He worked for his uncle of the same name, Hermon Camp, in the merchantile business. In 1849 he sailed to San Francisco around Cape Horn, intending to set up a business there. However, he encountered in San Francisco an acquaintance from New York, Henry Green, and they decided to venture together to Astoria, Oregon, and to establish there their merchantile business -- in competition with the Hudson Bay Company. Hermon was a founder and officer in the Oregon Iron Company, which established a furnace in Lake Oswego. After a few years in Astoria, Hermon and Henry turned over their Astoria enterprises to their brothers, Washington Irving Leonard and John Green, and went off to Portland, where they were very successful. Hermon became the Secretary of the Portland Gas Light Company and Vice President of the Portland Artificial Ice Company. He lived at the corner of 1st and A Streets. He never married and died in Portland. His remains were shipped back to Owego, NY, for burial. Leonard Street in Lake Oswego, OR, is named for him.
+2448	iii.	George Sperry LEONARD.
+2449	iv.	Henrietta LEONARD.
2450	v.	Emily Caroline LEONARD^1350,1362 was born on 29 September 1832 in Owego, Tioga Co., NY. She listed birth as Sep 1834 in the 1900 Census, but that doesn't fit very well with the birth of her brother in the spring of 1835.
2451	vi.	Washington Irving LEONARD^1350,1363 was born on 12 March 1835 in Owego, Tioga Co., NY. He died on 17 May 1874 at the age of 39 in Owego, Tioga Co., NY. ECL: Probably unmarried.
2452	vii.	Laura Ann LEONARD^1350,1364 was born in April 1837 in Owego, Tioga Co., NY.