Silas White Leonard

Silas White Leonard. b. Louisville, Kentucky, 1814; d. Centralia, Illinois, 1870. Leonard was a gospel preacher in the Disciples of Christ tradition, a music teacher, and a publisher. Upon the death of his parents at a young age, he was adopted by a Captain White, a Baptist, who raised and educated Silas in Ohio. He began preaching at age twenty and soon moved to southern Indiana. In 1948, he married Anna Jane Goodwin (1926–1900) and had four children. In 1856 he moved from Jeffersonville, Indiana, located across the river from Louisville, to a farm near Centralia, where he preached throughout the region. Leonard was known as 'a sweet-spirited, but aggressive and progressive, preacher'...