Helon B. Leyda, p. 504

HELON B. LEYDA was born July 27,1834, in Somerset township, Washington Co., Penn. He is a son of George and Luzzanna (New-Kirk) Leyda, and grandson of Benjamin and Catherine (Stoody) Leyda. The latter couple were natives of Pennsylvania, and settled in Washington county, Penn., where they reared a family of eleven children.

George Leyda was born in 1796, and reared on the farm, receiving a limited literary training in the subscription schools. In 1823 he embarked on the matrimonial sea in company with Luzanna New-Kirk, who was born in 1803. He then purchased a large tract of land, and followed farming and stock raising extensively in Washington county the remainder of his life. Politically he voted the Republican ticket, and in church connection he and his wife were members of the Pigeon Creek Presbyterian Church. He died in 1864, his wife in 1868, leaving the following family of children: Catherine (wife of I. V. Riddle, a farmer of Somerset township), Rhoda (married to Noah Myers, a resident of Toronto, Ohio), Julia (widow of David Clark, living in Nottingham township), Mary (widow of Daniel Teeters, of this county), Jane (wife of William Williams, a farmer of this county), James H. (a practicing physician of Allegheny, Penn.), Isaac N. (practicing medicine with his brother James), Almond R. (a real estate dealer of Beaver Falls, Beaver Co., Penn.) and Helon B.

Helon B. Leyda remained on the home farm during his boyhood, and attended school. On March 23,1882, he was married to Mary, daughter of John and Julia A. (Grable) McCormick Mr. Leyda owns 108 acres of well-cultivated land. In politics he is a Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Text taken from page 504 of:
Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893).

Transcribed May 1997 by George & Mary Ann Plance of Gainesville, FL as part of the Beers Project.
Published June 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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