Eighth Generation

3540. Mary Jane LEONARD was born on 23 August 1836 in Coburg, Ontario, Canada. She died on 2 December 1908 at the age of 72 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL.

Mary Jane LEONARD and Rev. John NATE were married in December 1855 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL. Rev. John NATE, son of John Matthew NATE and Ellen PROSSER, was born on 15 September 1832 in Gloucester, England. He died on 24 December 1909 at the age of 77 in Chicago, Cook Co., IL. Albert D. Hager, "History of Early Chicago, Modern Chicago and Its Settlement, Early Chicago and the Northwest," page 844: "Rev. John Nate, Methodist Episcopal clergyman, was born in England in 1832, son of John M. and Ellen Nate. His parents came to America in his infancy, and located in New York in 1836 then removed to Ilinois. The subject of this sketch received his education at the Mt. Morris Seminary. In 1852 he was licensed to exhort, and in 1853 as a minister. He joined the illinois Conference in 1855, and was transferred to the Rock River Conference in 1856, and in October, 1859. or-dained elder. His first work in the ministry was as agent of the American Bible Society: his first charge was Mechanics-burg, and his first charge in the Rock River Conference was at Rochelle, Ill., where he located the Church and built a parsonage. In 1857, at Wheaton. he located the present Church of that place. His next charge was at Naperville and Turner's Junction. In 1860 and 1862, he was stationed at Kaneville and McHenry. In the latter part of that year he accepted the chaplaincy to the seamen at Milwaukee, Wis., uuder the charge of the Western Seamen's Friends Society. He founded the first Seamen Church in Milwaukee. In 1864 he was appointed district secretary and superintendent of Missions for the West, including the territory lying west of Detroit, with headquarters at Chicago. He remained in that position for ten years his residence during the time being at Evanston. In 1874 he organized a Church and erected a church building at Ravenswood. He was appointed to the Market-street Mission in Chicago, and for four years held tim position of temperance missionary. In 1880 he was stationed at Crete, Ill., in 1881-82 at Manteno, and in the fall of 1882 at Burrington, his present charge. He has always been an earnest temperance worker and an ardent prohibition advocate. He was married in 1855 to Miss Mary J. E. Leonard, daughter of Rev. J. H. and Susannah (Lockwood) Leonard. The issue of the marriage has been seven children, five of whom survive--John I., Mary S., Ada E., Joseph C. and Raymond J. He is a member of the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance, and Past Grand Worthy Patriarch."

Mary Jane LEONARD and Rev. John NATE had the following children: