Leonard Walter Jerome (1817 - 1891)

Born 3 Nov 1817 in Pompey, Onondaga, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Clarissa (Hall) Jerome — married 5 Apr 1849 in Palmyra, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 3 Mar 1891 at age 73 in Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

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Leonard Walter Jerome was the son of Isaac Jerome and Aurora Murray, and a descendant of Timothy Jerome, a French Huguenot immigrant who arrived in the New York Colony in 1710. Leonard Jerome was born in 1817 on a farm in the Central New York town of Pompey, near Syracuse. He enrolled in Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey, as a member of the Class of 1839, before leaving for Union College, where he studied law and set up a practice in Rochester, New York. He later moved to New York City.

A financier, sportsman and stock speculator, Leonard made and lost several fortunes; he was known as "The King of Wall Street." He served as a major stockholder of the New York Times, and was the founder of Manhattan’s Academy of Music. His interests and passions centered around horseracing and yachting. The family home was at Madison and 26th St. in New York City.

Leonard Jerome married Clarissa Hall (1825 - 1895) in Palmyra, New York on 5 April 1849, and they had four daughters. One daughter, Camille, died at age eight. Leonard’s three daughters were known as "the Good, the Witty and the Beautiful." Jennie was 'the beauty' who married Lord Randolph Churchill, Clara Jerome 'the good’ married Morton Frewen (1853 - Sept. 4, 1924), and Leonie Jerome 'the witty' married Sir John Leslie (1857 - 1944). Leonie and John had four sons.

Several streets in New York City were named for Leonard Jerome.

While visiting with Jennie in England, Leonard died in 1891. His body was returned to the United States for burial at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Sources

• Gary Boyd Roberts. Notable Kin, Volume One. Publication: Name: Name: Carl Boyer, 3rd; Location: Santa Clarita, California; Date: 1998; Published in cooperation with the New England Historic genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Smith, Gregory Bell. The American ancestry of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Internet Archive, pg. 3 : accessed 20 Aug 2023.
• Wikipedia contributors, "Leonard Jerome," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonard_Jerome&oldid=750132792 (accessed May 19, 2017).

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of MASTER2011WIKITREE.GED on 27 January 2011.