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LEONARD REDDICK, grain dealer, Saybrook; was born in Muskingum Co., Ohio, June 19, 1822. His father died upon the homestead where he had resided over forty-five years. The subject of this sketch remained at home until he was 21 years of age, farming, when he served an apprenticeship of two years at the trade of carpentering, in Uniontown, and worked in that neighborhood until he was 29 years old, and then moved to Hamilton Co., Ind., and continued his trade there until 1865, when he came to within six miles southeast of Bloomington, remaining there until the next winter, when he came to Saybrook and worked at his trade of carpenter up to the spring of 1874. when he formed a co-partnership with David Hurley, as the firm of Reddick & Hurley, in the lumber business, and in the spring of 1877, having sold out his interest, has been engaged ever since in buying and selling grain. Married his first wife, Miss Sarah Moore, of Muskingum Co., Ohio, Jan. 13, 1849; she died April 12, 1852; they had two children, one living — Harriet J. (now Mrs. Zachariah Sparks, of Missouri), and one deceased — Mary C. Married his second wife, Miss Rebecca Galaway, of Hamilton Co., Ind., Dec. 31, 1853; they had seven children, four living — Sanford B., Alvira, Fremont and Joseph G.; three died in infancy.