Re: Thaddeus M. Leavenworth
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In reply to:
Thaddeus M. Leavenworth
Shirley Bowman 7/21/99
From Leavenworth Genealogy:
Thaddeus Miner Leavenworth (6), John Peck (5), John (4), John (3), Thomas (2), Thomas (1).
"Born April 15, 1803, in Woodbury, Conn.
Married Cornelia Terentia Cardell, daughter of William Samuel Cardell, of Bennington, VT., and of clementine Rogers, his wife, November 13, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa.She was born at Bennington, June 4, 1814.He received the honorary degree of A.M., from Union College in 1841.Was a lawyer, then an Episcopal clergyman and physician.Went to California in the first expedition, as surgeon in Col. Stevenson's regiment, and resided in San Francisco.No issue.
He was in 1848-9, Alcalde of San Francisco, and now lives on a ranche across the bay, at Sonoma, which is his post office.
While officiating as a clergyman, between 1840 and 1850, he lived for a year or two at Syracuse, and had care of a church at Liverpool, Onondaga Co., and in 1830 was settled over an Episcopal church in Troy, Miami Co., Ohio, and at other times officiated in other places."