Leonard Case Sr. (1786 - 1864)

Born 29 Jul 1786 in Westmoreland City, North Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States

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Died 7 Dec 1864 at age 78 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Leonard was born in 1786. Leonard Case ... He passed away in 1864. ^[1]

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Occupation: Lawyer.

Buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Note N43In 1816, Leonard Case was made cashier of the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, Cleveland's first bank. 1

Case, Leonard, Sr. (1786-1864) Father of William Case. Born in Westmoreland County, Pa., July 29, 1786. Member of Ohio state legislature, 1824-1827. Died in Cleveland, Ohio, December 7, 1864. Interment at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.^[2]

Leonard Case, Sr. 1

The lack of a central bank made it difficult to finance the War of 1812.

and the end of the conflict found the country flooded with unsound.

currency and its financial system in chaos. Despite arguements of.

unconstitutionality, enough support was secured to charter a new.

institution for twenty years, and the Second National Bank was.

established. Cleveland was to have a branch in the new Commercial Bank.

of Lake Erie. 1

Leonard Case " wrote a good hand and was a good accountant, " and Judge.

James Kingsbury recommended that he be brought to Cleveland from Warren,.

Ohio, to be cashier of the new bank. Case came in June of 1816, as the.

first bank of the village was being organized. His salary was 0.

annually. 1

Case was born July 29, 1786 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the.

son of Meshach Case and Magdalene (Eckstein) Case, a poor frontier.

farmer. His parents brought their large family to Warren Township in.

1800. In 1801, Leonard suffered from extreme outdoor exposure leading to.

an illness that left him a cripple and pain in his lifetime. This was,.

however, no handicap to his ambition. He served as confidential clerk to.

General Simon Perkins, land agent for the Connecticut Land Company in.

1807, and studied law in his spare time. During the War of 1812, he.

collected delinquent taxes. When Case came to Cleveland, he brought a.

valuable knowledge of the Western Reserve gained in the Warren tax.

office; and besides serving as cashier of the bank, he practiced law and.

dealt in real estate. After the bank failed, Case stayed in Cleveland.

practicing law. From 1821-25, as President of the Cleveland village.

council, he was responsible for planting shade trees, earning Cleveland.

the nickname " Forest City." From 1824-27, he served in the Ohio.

legislature, drafting laws taxing land according to their value rather.

than size.

He advocated railroads and canals. He was also an investor in the.

Cleveland-Columbus-Railroad. 1

He married Elizabeth Gaylord in Stow, Portage County, in 1817, and in.

the late 1840's turned his affairs over to his sons William and Leonard,.

Jr. Case gave to many great chartiable organizations, including.

Cleveland's first school for the poor, the Cayahoga County Historical.

Society, the Cleveland Medical College, and the city's first lyceum for.

the arts.

Case died in Cleveland and was buried in Lake View Cemetery.

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Frank Gill, Dec 19, 2012
2. ↑ "Case, Leonard Sr": Political Graveyard

• Frank Gill, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Frank and others.
• Wickham, Gertrude Van Rensselaer. The Pioneer Families of Cleveland 1796-1840 (Evangelical Publishing House, 1914) Page 179