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| Isaac J. Leggett, M.D., physician and surgeon, resident at Paris, Green Tp., was born in Cohocton, Steuben Co., N.Y., May 19, 1854. His parents Isaac and Sarah (Connor) Leggett, were natives of New York, where is father was by trade a millwright and also pursued agriculture. The latter died in February 1881 the mother is still living at Paris, with the family of her son. Dr. Leggett obtained his elementary education at the common schools, residing at home until 1866, when he commenced the study of medicine, completing his course in 1876/76, at the Chicago Medical College. He commenced his practice with Dr. Hamilton, at Tecumseh, Mich., where he remained one year. In the fall of 1878 he settled at Paris, and opened a business as a practitioner. In 1880 he added the drug business, and still combines that trade with his practice. He was married Sept. 22, 1880 to Mary Woodward, born in the State of New York, in 1854. They have one daughter Lola Genevieve born Aug. 7, 1881. Dr. Leggett is a Republican in political sentiment, and has held all the school offices of his town, was Superintendent in 1879, and is now School Inspector. |