Sacramento County
Biographies
LEWIS Y.
LEONARD
LEWIS Y. LEONARD--An eminently proficient representative of Sacramento County is Lewis Y. Leonard, the Agricultural Extension agent at Sacramento. He was born at Bronson, Mich., on July 25, 1887, the son of A.B and Virginia Elizabeth (Butts) Leonard; the latter, who died in 1897, was a native of Illinois, and a most estimable woman. Lewis came out to the Northwest when the family removed from Michigan to Washington, in 1896, and his father is still a resident of Spokane.
Lewis Leonard thus came to attend the public schools of Spokane, and the Washington State College at Pullman, from which he was graduated with the class of ’06 in the elementary department, four years later receiving from the same college the B. S. Degree, and in 1918, also from that higher educational institution, the degree of M. S. He then matriculated at the University of California, doing advanced work on his degree of Doctor of Philosophy. On May 17, 1920, Mr. Leonard came to Sacramento, having been appointed, on the first of that month, to this service of the Government. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, and is the secretary of the Fruit and Agricultural Bureau; and he is also a member of the Rotary Club, at the head of the boys’ work division.
At Spokane, in the year 1914, Mr. Leonard was married to Miss Tacoma Belle Forbes, of Tacoma, and their fortunate union has been blessed with three children, Bennie Lewis, Virginia Elizabeth and Jane Ardella. Mr. Leonard is a Knight of Pythias, and first, last and all the time, a good fellow.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 933. Historic
Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.