When John Henry Leonard was born on 27 February 1839, in Mentz, Cayuga, New York, United States, his father, George Washington Leonard, was 27 and his mother, Nancy J Palmer, was 28. He married Almira Irene Fellows on 26 December 1861, in Flowerfield Township, St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Cameron, Hall, Nebraska, United States in 1880 and Harrison Township, Hall, Nebraska, United States for about 15 years. He died on 17 March 1904, in Wood River, Hall, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Wood River, Hall, Nebraska, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Iowa is the 29th state.
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .
Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .
German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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