John leakey biography

Born in Texas in 1873, John worked for the OX. The next year, he went to work for Pierre Wibaux's W Bar and stayed for four years.
British NCO wireless operator/air gunner served flying Hampden with 83 Sqdn based in GB and operating over Germany, 1940.
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John Leakey

Pre-1940 Ranching

Inducted 1998

By age 17, John Leakey had left home and was on the trail driving cattle from New Mexico to the Yellowstone River of Montana. He arrived in North Dakota in October 1893 to work on the Towers Gudgel Ranch. He was involved with the last big North Dakota roundup–of about 30,000 head–in 1894.

Born in Texas in 1873, John worked for the OX. The next year, he went to work for Pierre Wibaux’s W Bar and stayed for four years. By 1904, he bought the old John Cornell place six miles east of the Trotter’s post office and his first bunch of cattle.

John was a tall rangy man who stood six feet six. He became acquainted with many of the hands who rode the North Dakota-Montana ranges around the turn of the century.

In 1910, John married Margaret Trotter, widow of his ranching friend, Lee Trotter. Margaret brought four children to the marriage. They sold both of their ranches and moved to his McKenzie County homestead with 1,000 head of cattle. The Leakey ranch grew to 44,000 acres and about 5,000 head of cattle by 19

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The Leakey Family

Louis and Mary Leakey were monumental figures in the field of paleoanthropology and their groundbreaking discoveries helped shape our understanding of human origins. Now, the Leakey family is synonymous with the study of human evolution, with three generations making important contributions to science.

Louis Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-1972) was a Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist who became one of the most iconic scientists of the twentieth century. In addition to his many fossil and stone tool discoveries, Louis Leakey was a passionate naturalist, a prolific writer, and a gifted showman with a talent for publicizing scientific discoveries to a broad public audience.

Leakey was born on August 7, 1903, at Kabete Mission near Nairobi, Kenya. His parents, Harry and Mary (Bazett) Leakey, were English missionaries to the Kikuyu tribe in the highlands west of Nairobi overlooking the Rift Valley. He spent the first sixteen years of his life in Kenya and grew up among the Kikuyu people. He spoke Kikuyu as fluently as English and developed a deep conne

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Canadian Virtual War Memorial

John Leakey

In memory of:

Private John Leakey

September 16, 1916

Military Service

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455795

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Army

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The Royal Canadian Regiment

Additional Information

Born:

January 29, 1870
Fulton, New York

Enlistment:

December 4, 1915
Ganonoque, Ontario

Son of Mrs. Thomas Leakey of Watertown, New York, U.S.A.

Commemorated on Page 117 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

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Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park