David Leach

Pioneer Nebraskan Dead

David Leach, Former Postmaster at Bellevue, Passes Away

Special Dispatch to the World-Herald
Wood River, Neb., April 16 - David Leach died here last Saturday, aged 75 years. Mr. Leach was born at Jackson, O., July 31, 1825. He attended the common school in his home district and at the age of 21 he opened a small store in his native town. In 1851 he married Miss Jennie Davis of Little Rock, Ark.

In 1854 he came west and located at Bellevue, Neb., where, for several years, he was postmaster and for ten years he served as treasurer of Sarpy county.

After leaving the treasurer’s office he, for a time, engaged in the mercantile business at Papillion. He then removed to Wood Lake, went again into the mercantile business and was nearly all the time while there postmaster. In all his business relations he was honest, upright and obliging.

He was a prominent Mason, a member of Nebraska lodge No. 1, and twice a master thereof. He attained the degree of Knight Templar.

Mr. Leach was a man of strong convictions, earnest and untiring in his advocacy of what he believed to be right. With a temperament easily excited, he was quick to resent what he considered as an injury or insult, yet just as ready to forgive and to acknowledge an error of his own.

He left to mourn his loss, the sharer of his joys and his sorrows through their life’s journey together and four children, William, who is general manager of a cotton oil plant at Little Rock, Ark.; Eugenia, wife of H. Hollenbeck, a conductor on the Omaha street railway; Roy, now postmaster at Wood Lake, and Ida. The two last named are unmarried and reside with their mother.

From the Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska), dated April 17, 1901