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Howard (1907), Vol. 2 biographies
“one of the oldest inhabitants of St. Joseph county… of Liberty township, where he has dwelt for over seventy years” (Part 73, pp. 1007–1009 ff.). B. 9 Aug. 1835, Greenville, Darke Co., Ohio, son of Joseph (Irish, Scotch-Irish lineage, farmer; died when Joseph was a child) and Hannah (Collins) Leggett (native of Virginia; d. in St. Joseph County aged 75); eleventh of twelve children, the only one living (Part 73). Brought at age one to St. Joseph County, where 160 acres were purchased in Liberty Township; first home a primitive log cabin; remembers Pottawatomie Indians roaming, deer, turkeys, wolves; killed a deer about half a mile west of North Liberty (Part 73). Employed on the Lake Shore railroad construction near New Carlisle (Part 73). M. Aug. 1860 Mary Wagner (b. 1830, Logan Co., Ohio; brought at five to St. Joseph County); two living children — Sarah, wife of Samuel Hildebrant, a teacher of North Liberty, and Norman E., on the old homestead (m. Mary C. Sheneman) (Part 73). Began married life as renters with under $20; successive purchases/sales and two years running a sawmill; present homestead grown to 262 acres (Part 73). A Jackson Democrat; he and his wife devout Methodists (Part 73). [PROFILE] Carrying fact: the 1836 child-arrival whose family is Chapman’s 1836/1837 “Joseph Liggett” at full Howard length — spelling conflict P-C2 (Liggett in Chapman, Leggett in Howard, including for the father’s line). If the identity holds (the arrival, township, and longevity all match), he is the register’s longest-residence founder; the identification is printed as the texts’ near-certain match, with the spelling difference unmerged.