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Birth:          14 Jul 1870 Quincy, Ill.
Death:          20 Nov 1919 New York, N.Y.
Cause of Death: tuberculosis

Notes
1981 book (see for details)
4 children
MIT's the Tech (3 Jan 1920)
"No Rocking Chair for Me: Memoirs of a Vibrant Woman Still Seeking Adventure" 
degree from MIT and from L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in France
architect
enlisted in WW1, major, lt col
awarded Silver Palms by French Academy on day he died
1901 NY Social register on google books 244 E 13th
1910 in Brooklyn, N.Y. architect 3 servants
owt McGinleys
awt Corey
Natl Cyclopedia of American Biography vol 16 on google books
LEEMING, Woodruff, architect, was born at Quincy, 111., July 14, 1870, son of 
Thomas Lonsdale and Aretlmsa Helena (Woodruff) Leeming, and grandson of Robert 
Leeming, a native of Lancashire, England, who emigrated in 1845 and settled at 
Kempville, Ontario. On his mother's side he is descended from Thomas Dewey, who 
came over from Sandwich, England, in 1633, to Plymouth, Mass., the line of descent 
being through his son Josiah, who served throughout King Philip's war; their son 
Ebenezer, his son Ebenezer, his son Timothy, who served in the Provisional army with 
Capt. Stiles' company at Cambridge in 1775, and with the New Hampshire line 
throughout the war of the revolution, and his son Timothy and his wife, Sylvia 
Canfield, who were the great grandparents of Woodruff Leeming. The latter was 
educated at Adelphi College, Brooklyn, and was graduated at the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology in 1891 with the degree of B.S. Subsequently he attended the 
Duray Atelier, Paris. He began his professional career in New York city in 1891 with 
the firm of Heins & La Farge, architects. In February, 1893, he opened an office in 
New York as partner with the Boston architectural firm of Little, Brown & Moore, but in 
the following year engaged independently as an architect in New York. He has made a 
specialty of city and country residences, his principal buildings being the palatial home 
of the Nassau Country Club, at Glen Cove, Long Island; the Arbuckle and the Beeeher 
memorial buildings in Brooklyn, and the residence of Abraham S. Post at Quogue, 
Long Island. Mr. Leeming is a director and member of the executive committee of the 
E. T. Howard Co., advertising, New York, and a director of the Eastern Mausoleum 
Co. and the Metropolitan Mausoleum Co., New York. He is a past president of the 
Brooklyn chapter of the American Institute of Architects; has for ten years been 
secretary of the department of architecture of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences; member of the city planning committee of the city of Brooklyn, and in 1913 
was consulting expert of the New York aldermanic building committee. He was a 
member of the board of governors of the National Arts Club, and is a member of the 
American Institute of Architects, Architectural League, National Sculptors' Society, 
Society Beaux Arts Architects, Explorers' Club and P. G. D. Fraternity Club, New York; 
New Canaan Country Club, and the Hamilton and Rembrandt clubs, Brooklyn; 
executive committee Brooklyn Council, Boy Scouts of America. His favorite pursuits 
are farming and yachting, and his country estate is at New Canaan, Conn. He was 
married in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 6, 1899, to Esther, daughter of Edward Tasker 
Howard, of Brooklyn, and has four children: Honor, Edward Howard, Elizabeth 
Lonsdale and Esther Woodruff Leeming. 




Parents
LEEMING Thomas ()
WOODRUFF Arethusa Helena ()

Siblings
LEEMING Woodruff (14 Jul 1870 - 20 Nov 1919)

Marriage To HOWARD Esther (18 Jan 1877 - Jun 1923)
    m. 6 Nov 1899 Brooklyn, N.Y.

Notes

Parents
HOWARD Edward Tasker ("Ned") (1843 - 1918)
KELSEY Clara (2 Nov 1851 - 1904)

Children by HOWARD Esther 18 Jan 1877 - Jun 1923
LEEMING Honor (18 Dec 1901 - 3 Apr 1997)
LEEMING Edward Howard ("Monk") (2 Feb 1908 - Apr 1981)
LEEMING Elizabeth Lonsdale ("Lee") (1910 - 17 Jan 1962)
LEEMING Esther Woodruff (1 Jul 1911 - )

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