From the History of Worth and Mitchell Counties, Iowa, Union Publishing Co., 1883, Page 591

About the same time C. J. Leslie located and opened an office at Northwood, for the practice of law, but business not proving satisfactory, the people either not being litigatiously inclined or preferring the old attorneys, he packed up his traps, and emigrated to other climes, His present whereabouts seem to be involved in obscurity.

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, May 6, 2008