Jeremiah Seldon Leas ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

Lived on a farm 1 mi. west of Rossville for 7 years.

Then lived on a farm near Marshall, MN for 15 years. Then lived on a farm near St. Cloud, MN for 4 years.

Moved to Sauk Rapids, MN and had a taxi service for 4 years. In May 1924 they moved to a farm near Crookston, MN.

Moved to MI in the Fall of 1937. Have 7 children, 29 g-children and 8 gg-children.


An Illustrated History of Lyon County, Minnesota by Arthur P. Rose

J. S. LEAS (1900) is a successful farmer of Stanley township, where he has lived for the past twelve years. He owns the southeast quarter of section 10. Mr. Leas has a fine set of buildings, erected in 1902, and a well improved farm in other ways. He engages quite extensively in stock raising, making a specialty of full-blooded Chester White hogs. Iowa is the birthplace of Mr. Leas and June 6, 1869, is the date of his nativity. His parents, Jeremiah and Susana (Henderson) Leas, were both born In Ohio, the former in 1827, the later in 1828. Until he was twenty- one years of age our subject attended school. During the next three years he worked on the farm for his father and then started in the business for himself. In 1899 Mr. Leas bought his Lyon county farm and the following year he took possession. Most of the improvements on the place were made by him. Mr. Leas is a member of the Presbyterian church of Swan Lake and he has held the office of treasurer of school district No. 34 for five years. J. S. Leas and Hester Olive Kelly were married at Waukon, Iowa, in 1894. The parents of Mrs. Leas, John and Jane Kelly, are dead. The following named six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Leas: Leo, born April 7, 1895; Lauren Reid, born February 1, 1899; Glen Vernon, born January 16, 1903; Velva Ruth, born December 30, 1905; Beryl Wayne, born September 11, 1909; Cecil Eugene, born March 24, 1911. ³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: US Census, 1920, Benton County, Minnesota.

Jeremiah married Hester Olive Kelly, daughter of John Ora Kelly and Jane Wave Lewis, on 11 Sep 1893 in Waukon, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA. (Hester Olive Kelly was born on 26 Jun 1875 in Rossville, Linton Township., Allamakee County, Iowa, USA, died on 22 Jul 1950 in Sauk Rapids, Benton County, Minnesota, USA and was buried in Sauk Rapids, Benton County, Minnesota, USA ⁴.)