Sadie Leonard (1888 - 1976)

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Anna Marion McLeran

Cornelia Beal Leonard Harty

Col. Henry Leonard and Eliza Tharpe

E. S. Leonard

Wilbur Hampton Leonard

Unknown boy - "Lil Lord Fauntleroy?"

S.A. and Alice Leonard

Bernard Leonard

Robert William Leonard

Jane Leonard 1923-2005 & Tom Leonard 1921-1963

Tom and Mary Leonard

Mary Leonard 1918-2013 and grandfather, Daniel R. Leonard 1846-1924.

Margaret Leonard

Henry Clarence Leonard

Bill Leonard 1913-1951

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In 1888, in the year that Sadie Leonard was born, Irishman John Robert Gregg published a pamphlet in the U.S., teaching his first version of shorthand - Gregg shorthand. When he improved on the first version and published it 5 years later, Gregg shorthand became popular.

In 1897, Sadie was just 9 years old when on July 17th, the Klondike Gold Rush began when the first successful prospectors returned to Seattle after mining in the Yukon. They arrived on the ships Excelsior and Portland, bringing vast quantities of gold - over $32,000,000 in today's money - and everyone rushed to become rich in the Yukon.

In 1925, she was 37 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.

In 1931, at the age of 43 years old, Sadie was alive when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

In 1976, in the year of Sadie Leonard's passing, The United States celebrated the Bicentennial of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. It was a year long celebration, with the biggest events taking place on July 4th.