Husband Henry E. Leman 1
Born: 8 Mar 1812 - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA 1
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Father: Jacob Leman (1756-1835) 2
Mother: Catherine Eichholtz (1773-1856) 3
Marriage: 1851 3
Wife Anna Dubois 3
Born: 1828 3
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Died: 1873 3
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Father: Louis Dubois (1774-1831) 3
Mother: Anna Hull (1787-1865) 3
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1 M Henry E. Leman, Jr. 3
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2 M Samuel W. Leman 3
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3 F Adelia Leman 3
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4 M James Cameron Leman 3
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General Notes: Husband - Henry E. Leman
He obtained a practical business education in the private schools of his native place. At the age of sixteen he began learning gun-making with Melchoir Fordney, who was a gun manufacturer in Lancaster during his active business life, and served for three years. From 1831 to 1834 he was a journeyman with George W. Tryon, rifle manufacturer in Philadelphia, and in the latter year established his own business in Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, in a part of his father's brewery, afterwards carried on at corner of Walnut Street and Cherry Alley, and which he subsequently removed to a location on James Street. During the first year he received an order from John N. Lane for fifty rifles, which were shipped to St. Louis for the Indian trade, and his entire manufacture was that year about two hundred and fifty. The business rapidly increased, caused by the demand for his products, until it reached thousands annually. His first contract for the government was for one thousand rifles in 1837, during Van Buren's administration, at the time of a treaty with the Indians, and thereafter annually the United States government made a contract with Mr. Leman for his rifles until 1860. In 1861 he was offered a contract by Gen. Cameron, Secretary of War, for two hundred and fifty thousand rifles, which he declined on account of the uncertainty of the continuance of the war, and the extra necessary machinery required for producing them on short time. But he repaired large numbers, changing them from flint to percussion. His trade extended largely to the Southern States, and his rifle was the first to supply the Pacific coast and the far West. As early as 1840 he had a contract to repair muskets for the state of Pennsylvania at the Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Meadville arsenals. There were few sporting rifles that had a more extended or better reputation than those manufactured at the Leman Rifle-Works at Lancaster, every one being made of the best wrought iron and steel, with varnished maple stocks, silver sights, double trigger, bullet-moulds, rifle-wipers, charger, and extra nipples, every rifle being warranted before it left Mr. Leman's works.
Mr. Leman was a member of both branches of the Common Council of the city, and with George M. Steinman was one of the originators of the sinking fund of the city. Beginning in 1840 he was identified with Masonic Lodge No. 43, F. and A. M., and was one of the charter members of Lamberton Lodge, No. 476, and in 1883 was a member of the Lancaster Lodge of Perfection, and also a member of the board of trustees of Lancaster Cemetery.