Leonard Church was born in East Hartford, CT and removed with his family in 1806 to Lee, MA, where his father built paper mills. At age 17 he went to work for his brother Charles in the newly-settled Ogden, NY, where Charles operated a successful dry good business. In 1819 in return to Lee and the family business, papermaking. With capital from a brother, he also entered the mercantile business. He made a tidy sum producing the faddish Navarino bonnets, made of paper. He left the paper business in1846. In 1844 he became president of the bank in Lee. He served to terms in the state legislature.
SOURCES
MARRIAGE
MassachusettsTown and Vital Records 1620-1988
Name Lucy Sedgwick
Event Type Marriage
Marriage Date 4 Apr 1826
Marriage Place Lenox, Massachusetts
Spouse Name Leonard Church
Household Members
Name Age
Leonard Church
Lucy Sedgwick
BURIAL
Connecticutu002C Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices1629-1934
Name Leonard Church
Birth Date 18 Jul 1800
Death Date 7 Nov 1877
Age at Death 77
Cemetery Spring Grove Cemetery
Burial Place Hartford, Connecticut
CENSUS
1860 United States Federal Census
Name Leonard Church
Age 59
Birth Year abt 1801
Gender Male
Birth Place Connecticut
Home in 1860 Hartford District 1, Hartford, Connecticut
Post Office Hartford
Family Number 1234
Household Members
Name Age
Leonard Church 59
Lucy S Church 59
James Consadyne 19
Bridget McEloon 29
SOURCES
MARRIAGE
MassachusettsTown and Vital Records 1620-1988
Name Lucy Sedgwick
Event Type Marriage
Marriage Date 4 Apr 1826
Marriage Place Lenox, Massachusetts
Spouse Name Leonard Church
Household Members
Name Age
Leonard Church
Lucy Sedgwick
BURIAL
Connecticutu002C Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices1629-1934
Name Leonard Church
Birth Date 18 Jul 1800
Death Date 7 Nov 1877
Age at Death 77
Cemetery Spring Grove Cemetery
Burial Place Hartford, Connecticut
CENSUS
1860 United States Federal Census
Name Leonard Church
Age 59
Birth Year abt 1801
Gender Male
Birth Place Connecticut
Home in 1860 Hartford District 1, Hartford, Connecticut
Post Office Hartford
Family Number 1234
Household Members
Name Age
Leonard Church 59
Lucy S Church 59
James Consadyne 19
Bridget McEloon 29
Leonard Church was born in East Hartford, CT and removed with his family in 1806 to Lee, MA, where his father built paper mills. At age 17 he went to work for his brother Charles in the newly-settled Ogden, NY, where Charles operated a successful dry good business. In 1819 in return to Lee and the family business, papermaking. With capital from a brother, he also entered the mercantile business. He made a tidy sum producing the faddish Navarino bonnets, made of paper. He left the paper business in1846. In 1844 he became president of the bank in Lee. He served to terms in the state legislature.
SOURCES
MARRIAGE
MassachusettsTown and Vital Records 1620-1988
Name Lucy Sedgwick
Event Type Marriage
Marriage Date 4 Apr 1826
Marriage Place Lenox, Massachusetts
Spouse Name Leonard Church
Household Members
Name Age
Leonard Church
Lucy Sedgwick
BURIAL
Connecticutu002C Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices1629-1934
Name Leonard Church
Birth Date 18 Jul 1800
Death Date 7 Nov 1877
Age at Death 77
Cemetery Spring Grove Cemetery
Burial Place Hartford, Connecticut
CENSUS
1860 United States Federal Census
Name Leonard Church
Age 59
Birth Year abt 1801
Gender Male
Birth Place Connecticut
Home in 1860 Hartford District 1, Hartford, Connecticut
Post Office Hartford
Family Number 1234
Household Members
Name Age
Leonard Church 59
Lucy S Church 59
James Consadyne 19
Bridget McEloon 29
SOURCES
MARRIAGE
MassachusettsTown and Vital Records 1620-1988
Name Lucy Sedgwick
Event Type Marriage
Marriage Date 4 Apr 1826
Marriage Place Lenox, Massachusetts
Spouse Name Leonard Church
Household Members
Name Age
Leonard Church
Lucy Sedgwick
BURIAL
Connecticutu002C Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices1629-1934
Name Leonard Church
Birth Date 18 Jul 1800
Death Date 7 Nov 1877
Age at Death 77
Cemetery Spring Grove Cemetery
Burial Place Hartford, Connecticut
CENSUS
1860 United States Federal Census
Name Leonard Church
Age 59
Birth Year abt 1801
Gender Male
Birth Place Connecticut
Home in 1860 Hartford District 1, Hartford, Connecticut
Post Office Hartford
Family Number 1234
Household Members
Name Age
Leonard Church 59
Lucy S Church 59
James Consadyne 19
Bridget McEloon 29
Family Members
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