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LEONARD, Abiel, P. E. bishop, born in Fayette, Maine, 26 June, 1848. He is a son of Judge Abiel Leonard, and great-grandson of Reverend Abiel Leonard, who was chaplain in 1776 to General George Washington, in 1870 he was graduated at Dartmouth, and in 1873 from the General theological seminary. His entire ministry has been in the west. He was rector of Calvary church in Sedalia, Missouri, for three years, and then of Trinity church in Hannibal, Maine, for four years. In 1881 he was called to Trinity church, Atchison, Kansas, where he remained till 1887, when he was elected missionary bishop of Utah and Nevada. During his residence in Kansas he was secretary of the diocesan convention, delegate to the General convention, and for four years a member of the standing commit-Lee of the diocese.
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