BIO: Adam Russel LEFFARD, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 93-94.
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  ADAM RUSSEL LEFFARD, coach and wagon maker, Huntingdon Pa., was born 
in Porter township, Huntingdon county, Pa., October 18, 1848.  He was a 
son of William Smith and Catherine (River) Leffard.  William S. Leffard 
was a Philadelphian, born in that city July 7, 1797.  In earlier life 
he was a shoemaker, but later became a farmer.  He died in 1874, and 
his wife in 1884, both at an advanced age.  Their children were nine in 
number:  Anna Mary, who married James Cornelius, of Porter township, 
Huntingdon county, both deceased; Joseph S., of McVeytown, Mifflin 
county, married to Emma Beigle; Rose E. (Mrs. Osborn Laird), of Spruce 
Creek; Anna Elizabeth (Mrs. John S. Laird), who died in 1889; Enoch I., 
married Caroline Wittaker, resides in Alexandria, Huntingdon county; 
John R., of Porter township, married Margaret Brenneman; William S., of 
Warren, Warren county, Pa., married Alice McClure, of Petersburg, 
Huntingdon county, who died in 1895; Adam Russel; Sarah C. (Mrs. Scott 
Beigle), of Spruce Creek.  Three of the sons of this family were 
soldiers in the United States army during the war of the Rebellion; one 
of them, Joseph S. Leffard, was a cannoneer, having charge of one of 
the guns of Battery D, First Pennsylvania Reserves, Light Artillery, 
the battery from which the first shot was fired in the battle of Cedar 
Creek, Va.
  Adam Russel Leffard received his entire education in the common 
schools of Porter township, Huntingdon county.  He assisted his father 
in his business until he was twenty-four years of age, and then learned 
coach and wagon making with Thomas Pickett, of Adamsville, Mich., 
finishing his trade with David Mingle, in Huntingdon, Pa.  He then went 
into business with James S. Baum, of Mifflinburg, Union county.  They 
transacted business for three years under the firm name of Leffard & 
Baum, then they dissolved partnership, and the business was continued 
by Mr. Leffard at the old stand, the same place as at present, at the 
corner of Eighth and Penn streets, Huntingdon, Pa.  Mr. Leffard has 
been a councilman for the borough and held other town and ward offices. 
He is a staunch Republican.
  Adam Russel Leffard was married in 1873 to Martha, a daughter of John 
H. and Elizabeth Hutchinson.  Their children are:  William Donald, 
Alice and Walter Scott, all at home.  Mr. Leffard was born of Reformed 
stock and reared in that church, which he still attends.