Leech, Samuel Y.,
farmer, Sec. 36; P.O. Le Grand;
owns eighty acres of land, valued at $35 per acre; he was born Dec. 29, 1836,
in Columbiana Co., Ohio; came to Iowa in the Fall of 1855; stopped in Iowa City
a short time, and then went to Cedar Co., in Springdale Tp.;
remained about eighteen months, and then came to Le Grand, in this county, in
1857; remained there until 1863; he went to Tama Co., and from there he came on
to his present farm in 1865. He is at present Township Assessor, and is serving
his second term of office. He married Anna E. Trahen
Jan. 1, 1860; she was born Sept. 16, 1838, in Knox Co.,
p.597, Le Grand Township
--Taken from “The History of Marshall
County Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its
Cities, Towns, &r.,” and published by Western Historical Company of
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