About Douglas Leffingwell
Lived 1826 – 1900. Douglas Leffingwell was an American politician.
Douglas Leffingwell (May 17, 1826 – April 3, 1900) was an American politician.
He was born in Ellsworth, Ohio, on May 17, 1826. Between 1946 and 1852, he lived in New York, and was active in the Mercantile Library Association. Leffingwell returned to Ohio and studied law in Cleveland. Upon passing the bar in 1858, Leffingwell moved to McGregor, Iowa. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, he organized a company that saw action in the Battle of Shiloh, where Leffingwell was injured. Leffingwell married McGregor native Sara Josephine Vanderwerker in 1865.
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Douglas Leffingwell was born in 1826.
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Douglas Leffingwell died in 1900.
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