David W. Leese    

DAVID W. LEESE, farmer and surveyor, post-office West Middlesex, is a son of Daniel and Maria (Emig) Leese, natives of York County, Penn. Mr. Leese was born north of Codorus, York Co., Penn., in October, 1834. He received his education in the public schools of the county, and in early life taught school in the winter months, and worked on the farm in the summer, until he had educated himself for his profession of surveying and expert accountant. In 1863 he removed to Mercer County, settled in West Middlesex, and engaged as the book-keeper for the coal and iron works, which position he filled for ten years. In the spring of 1873 he removed to Brazil, Ind., to fill the position of superintendent of the brass furnace and several coal mines located there. He returned to West Middlesex in 1875, and was not engaged in any active business until 1879, when he purchased his present place of residence, about one mile and a half east of the town, where he has since resided. Mr. Leese has 105 acres of land, and pays particular attention to the growing of fruits. He is well known through the county, having been identified professionally with the settling of many private and public estates. He was married in the fall of 1858 to Miss Sarah E. Wood, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Brown) Wood, of East Berlin, Adams Co., Penn. By this marriage they had three children: Oliver E., Thaddeus S. and Maud F. His wife died in May, 1886. He married for his second wife, in the fall of 1887, Miss Julia McLain, daughter of Charles McLain, of Mercer County, Penn.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, page 855.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.