Addison

MEECH, Leonard E.

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 273 
(portrait p 273)

Leonard E. MEECH, of East Monkton [Addison County, Vermont], was born 27 
October 1844 in Hinesburgh [Chittenden County, Vermont], son of Henry B. and 
Jane E. (BURRITT) MEECH. His education was principally received at the 
academy of Hinesburgh, but he supplemented his school instruction by a long 
course of judicious reading and home study. He served in the Civil War in 
Company G, Fourteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, in which he was promoted 
to corporal and a little later was compelled to accept his discharge on 
account on disability. He has always followed general farming, especially 
devoting his attention to the breeding of Jersey cows, and horses of a high 
class. Well-informed in political affairs; has filled nearly all the 
official positions in his town, and in 1884 represented Monkton in the 
Legislature, serving on the committee on the state's prison. He is allied 
with the Masonic fraternity, and for twelve years has been a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church in which he has served for some time as steward. 
Sincere and unassuming, his straightforward and honorable dealings have won 
for him a numerous body of warm friends in his community. On 03 July 1865 at 
Monkton [Addison County, Vermont] Mr. [Leonard E.] MEECH was married to Edna 
S., daughter of Daniel S. and Frances M. (DEMING) LADD. From this union were 
four children, only one of whom, Daniel, survives.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly