Sadie Leonard (1889 - 1978)

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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 1889, in the year that Sadie Leonard was born, on January 15th, the Coca-Cola Company was incorporated - originally as the "Pemberton Medicine Company". The Coca-Cola drink was originally created by John Stith Pemberton, first as a patent medicine and then as a soda fountain drink. Pemberton had sold the company in 1888, shortly before he died.

In 1891, she was only 2 years old when James Naismith, at the Springfield Massachusetts YMCA, invented the game of basketball. Originally using two peach baskets and a soccer ball, he created the game to keep his students active during the long, harsh New England winters.

In 1906, she was 17 years old when abolitionist and suffragette leader Susan B. Anthony died, before women's right to vote nationally was realized (in 1920). She, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association which later became the League of Women Voters. She died at the age of 86 of heart failure and pneumonia in her home in New York.

In 1938, she was 49 years old when on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."

In 1978, in the year of Sadie Leonard's passing, on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.