Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

GEORGE M. LEITCH, painter, Ashland; was born in Lenawa County,
Mich., July 11, 1852.  At 14 years he engaged to learn the trade
of coach painter, at which he worked in various places many
years.  Went to New Orleans, and was one of the force that
frescoed the St. Charles Opera House.  Upon his return from the
South he took a trip through Canada, frescoing churches, etc.
Returning to the States, he eventually settled in Ashland, this
county, where he has since remained, engaged in painting,
graining and frescoing.  He was married in Ashland July 24, 1877,
to Miss Louisa A. Douglass, who was born to John L. and Ellen
(Yates) Douglass, in 1860.  She is the mother of two children,
viz.: John W., born Oct. 10, 1881; Estella, Nov. 22, 1879. 
William M. Leitch, the father of our subject, was born in Huron
County, Ohio, in 1816, a retired contractor and builder, living
at Blissfield, Michigan.  His wife, Emily S. Randall, born near
Biddeford,Maine, in about 1821, died Oct. 10, 1881.  She was the
mother of five children, of whom George, our subject was the
third child.  He has always taken more or less interest in the
political issues of the times, and his sympathies are with the
Democratic party.  His father and one brother were in Company C,
Fourth Michigan Cavalry, and one brother, Captain of Company K,
Eleventh Infantry.

Leitch Douglass Yates Randall
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