ORVICE RINALDO LEONARD In business circles Mr. Leonard is best known in Detroit and through Michigan as general agent in the Lower Peninsula for the National Surety Company of New York, and is an insurance man of long and varied experience, both in this slate and elsewhere. Mr. Leonard has recently completed his second term in the Michigan legislature, where his service was particularly valuable in insurance legislation and also in the investigation of the affairs of the Pere Marquette railroad system. A successful business man. he has also been honored at various times with important offices and his home has been in Detroit for more than twenty years. Orvice K. Leonard is a New Englander by birth, born at Keene, New Hampshire, September 24, 1865. His parents were Henry O. and Harriette (Hendrick) Leonard. Henry O. Leonard was born in Vermont in 1839. the son of Oliver R. Leonard, a native of that state and a descendant of an old New England family. Henry O. Leonard was for four and a half years in the service of the government during the Civil war, and though enlisting as a private soldier on account of his line penmanship was detailed for clerical work in the field department. As a boy he had learned line finish work in cabinet making and kindred lines, and that was the basis of his regular vocation all his life, being employed on the higher class of work on pianos and wagons. His career was spent in Vermont and New Hampshire until his declining years, and he now makes his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Baptist church. His wife, Harriette Hendrick, was born in New Hampshire in 1836 and died in 1887. Ancestors in both the Leonard and Hendrick lines served as soldiers in the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812. Mr. Orvice R. Leonard grew up and received his educational advantages in the two New England states of Vermont and New Hampshire, attending the public schools of Keene and also of Brattleboro. Vermont, and was also a student in the Vermont Academy at Saxton's River. His business experiences began as clerk in a mercantile store, and was varied by considerable work as a piano and organ tuner. After coming to Detroit in 1890 Mr. Leonard was for two years chief clerk in the office of Register of Deeds in Wayne county. This was followed by eleven years in the bond business. In 1903 Mr. Leonard became resident manager in Detroit for the National Surety Company, and since 1908 has served that company as general agent for the Lower Peninsular and under his management that company has a well fortified position in all parts of the state. Mr. Leonard has had an interesting military career. Rack in Vermont he spent nine years in the National Guards, and after coming to Michigan was in the Michigan Naval Reserve, and during the Spanish-American war went with that notable organization on the famous cruise on board the U. S. S. Yosemite, a ship that won unusual honors while in Cuban waters. Since locating in Detroit he has been more or less actively identified with the Republican party, and has accepted several appointments outside the usual routine of public office. In 1906 President Roosevelt appointed him the first marshal of the United States court for China, and for several months he was located at Shanghai. President Taft, in 1910, made him supervisor of census for the first district of Michigan. In the same year came his first election to the Michigan legislature as representative of the first district in Wayne county, and in 1912 he was re-elected, his plurality the second time being nearly 3,000. During the session of 1913 Mr. Leonard was chairman of the committee on insurance in the House, and the various important insurance measures that were considered and enacted in the law bore the impress of his thorough experience and judgment.' However, his time was chiefly taken up in that session with the investigation of the Pere Marquette Railroad system. It was largely due to his efforts that the bill was passed for the organization of the Michigan Naval Reserve. Mr Leonard is a member of the Episcopal church, affiliates with the Masonic and Odd Fellows order, and belongs to the Detroit Athletic Club and other clubs. History of Michigan by Charles Moore Vol 4 - 1915

ORVICE RINALDO LEONARD OBITUARY Died in Detroit 13 September 1915 Orvice R. Leonard, general agent of the National Surety for Southern Michigan, died on the 14th inst. after an illness of four months, aged 50. Mr. Leonard was born at Keenee. N H. and came to Detroit when quite a young man. He was an enthusiastic member of the Michigan Naval Reserves and served on the U. S. S. Yosemite during the Spanish-American war with the "millionaire Jackie". Following the war he was in the office of the register of deeds in Detroit for four years and then became general agent of the National Surety. In 1906 he was appointed the firsy marshal of the United States Court for China by President Roosevelt and was located in Shanghai for some months, when he resigned and returned to Detroit. In 1910 he was appointed supervisor of the census in the first congressional district of Michigan by President Taft and received much commendation for his work. Subsequently he served two terms in the legislature and did some good work there. He was very popular and was well known in financial and business circles. He leaves many friends.