| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Eighth Generation3303. Claude Greene LEONARD1878 was born on 14 May 1864 in West Dover, Windham Co., VT. According to New England Families, Historical and Genealogical, Vol. 3, p. 1344: "He attended the public schools of his native town and the West Brattleborough Seminary. When he was nineteen years old he became associated in the maple sugar business with his father and was admitted to partnership under the firm name of D.G. Leonard & Son. For a number of years he managed the business and he continued it until 1895, when he sold it. For eight years he was a general merchant in Wilmington in partnership with C. D. Spencer, under the firm name of Spencer & Leonard and conducted his maple sugar business at the same time. He engaged in the insurance business in 1894, and since 1895 his whole time has been devoted to it. In 1897 he removed to Springfield and since then he has had a real estate and insurance office in that town and has taken rank among the leading business men. He is a director of the Springfield Cooperative Savings and Loan Association, of which he is secretary and treasurer. He is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, one of its stewards, a trustee, and chairman of the finance committee..." Claude Greene LEONARD and Eleanor Platt RICE were married on 21 February 1886. Eleanor Platt RICE, daughter of Isaac D. RICE, was born in Barre, Washington Co., VT. Claude Greene LEONARD and Eleanor Platt RICE had the following children:
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