Leary, Ross
journalist, was born in 1861, in Chowan county, N. C. He has been president of the Farmers' Alliance of his county; and is the editor and owner of the Blackwater Courier of Franklin, Va., where he is prominently identified with the public affairs of his county and state.
LEAVENWORTH, ELIAS WARNER, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1803, in Canaan, N. Y. He was a member of the state legislature in 1835 from Syracuse, N. Y.; and in 1836 was appointed brigadier-general of the state artillery. He was mayor of Syracuse from 1849 to 1859; a member of the legislature from 1850 to 1857; and secretary of state in 1854 and 1855. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress. He died Nov. 25, 1887, in Syracuse, N. Y.