When Abraham Simpkins Leonard was born on 9 April 1839, in Portage, Ohio, United States, his father, Jacob Abraham Leonard, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Carter, was 26. He married Mandana Spencer on 24 November 1861, in Worth, Worth, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Custer, Montana, United States in 1900. He died on 6 September 1913, in Ridge, Carter, Montana, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Ridge Cemetery, Ridge, Carter, Montana, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1841: Gentry County created from Non-county Area 12
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Montana was made a territory by President Abraham Lincoln on May 26 1864. The capital was Virginia City and remained the capital until 1894, when Helena became the capital.
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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