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Abiel Leonard, Yankee Slaveholder, Eminent Jurist, and Passionate Unionist
Title
Abiel Leonard, Yankee Slaveholder, Eminent Jurist, and Passionate Unionist
Description
Chapters in the book focus on Leonard's ancestry and early life, his duel with Taylor Berry, his politics, family life, slave holding, lawyer and judgeship responsibilities, federal politics, and the Civil War.
Date
2002
Object Type
Book Section
Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
Title
Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
Description
One paragraph of biography about Abiel Leonard (1797-1863), a Missouri State Supreme Court justice in 1855 and native of Vermont coming to Missouri Territory about 1819.
Date
1935
Object Type
Book