Nathan Ransom Leonard
Acting president of the University of Iowa
Nathan Ransom Leonard (November 29, 1832 – July 8, 1917) was an acting president of the University of Iowa, serving first from 1867 to 1868 and again from 1870 to 1871.
Biography
Nathan R. Leonard was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1832.
He married Elizabeth Heizer in 1853, and they had five children.
Leonard died at his home in Butte, Montana on July 8, 1917.
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