LESLIE C. JOHN.

LESLIE C. JOHN.
Leslie C. John, a certified public accountant and also secretary and treasurer of the Fair Trading Company, operating at Rock River, Wyoming, was born near Mount Morris, in Perry township, Greene county, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1885, a son of Kinsey and Ruama (Lemley) John, both of whom were born near Mount Morris, Pennsylvania. The father engaged in farming during his early life and later took up the work of surveying, while subsequently he engaged in the newspaper business. He is now living retired near Baltimore, Ohio. His wife also survives. The John and Lemley families have been represented on this side of the Atlantic throughout many generations and representatives of both are scattered all over the west. The old John homestead in Greene county, Pennsylvania, is yet in possession of the family and today the fourth generation of the name is residing thereon. Mr. and Mrs. John became the parents of four children: Ira D., who is living in Millersport, Ohio; Leslie C., of this review; L. F., whose home is in Kirkersville, Ohio; and Alice R., living at Baltimore, Ohio. Through the period of his boyhood Leslie C. John was a pupil in the public schools of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where he mastered the work of the high school and was graduated with the class of ,1992. He then turned his attention to clerical work in Waynesburg and in 1909 removed westward to Wyoming, settling at Rock River. In the meantime, however, he had spent the years 1905 and 1906 in preparatory work in the Valparaiso (Ind.) University and in 19081909 pursued a special course in the Waynesburg College, his thorough training well qualifying him for life's practical and responsible duties. Upon his removal to the west he became connected with the Toltec Live Stock Company and the Rockdale Live Stock Company of Rock River and was elected secretary of these companies in 1914. These companies are conducting a very extensive business in the raising and sale of live stock, handling blooded cattle and high grade sheep and horses. They have an immense ranch in Albany county, near Rock River, and Mr. John contributed in marked measure to the success of the company as its secretary until April, 1918, when he resigned in order to interest himself in the Fair Trading Company, a corporation which was organized in March, 1918, to conduct a general store and a trading business at Rock River. Mr. John, upon the incorporation, was chosen secretary-treasurer of the company. Formerly he was also director of several companies, of one of which Timothy Ross is the president and J. Ross Kelley vice president. Mr. John is an expert accountant and in 1911 was granted by the state board the right to pratcice as a certified public accountant. On July 5, 1910, he became a notary public and has continued to fill that position. In December, 1910, Mr. John was united in marriage to Miss Maude Vance Shape, of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, who passed away in December, 1915, in her native city. She was a daughter of William and Jennie Shape, deceased, of that place. She left one child, Leslie C., Jr., who was born in Laramie, Wyoming, July 5, 1912. Her loss was deeply regretted not only by her immediate family but by many friends, for she had endeared herself to all with whom she came in contact during the period of her residence in the west. Mr. John is a democrat in his political views and is now serving as justice of the peace at Rock River. In 1913 he was called upon to represent his district in the state legislature and proved a most active working member of the assembly. He is widely known throughout his section of the state and stands very high in public regard by reason of his capability and progressiveness as a business man, by reason of his public-spirited citizenship and by reason of his marked devotion to the general good.

Leslie C. John, a certified public accountant and also secretary and treasurer of the Fair Trading Company, operating at Rock River, Wyoming, was born near Mount Morris, in Perry township, Greene county, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1885, a son of Kinsey and Ruama (Lemley) John, both of whom were born near Mount Morris, Pennsylvania. The father engaged in farming during his early life and later took up the work of surveying, while subsequently he engaged in the newspaper business. He is now living retired near Baltimore, Ohio. His wife also survives. The John and Lemley families have been represented on this side of the Atlantic throughout many generations and representatives of both are scattered all over the west. The old John homestead in Greene county, Pennsylvania, is yet in possession of the family and today the fourth generation of the name is residing thereon. Mr. and Mrs. John became the parents of four children: Ira D., who is living in Millersport, Ohio; Leslie C., of this review; L. F., whose home is in Kirkersville, Ohio; and Alice R., living at Baltimore, Ohio.
Through the period of his boyhood Leslie C. John was a pupil in the public schools of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where he mastered the work of the high school and was graduated with the class of ,1992. He then turned his attention to clerical work in Waynesburg and in 1909 removed westward to Wyoming, settling at Rock River. In the meantime, however, he had spent the years 1905 and 1906 in preparatory work in the Valparaiso (Ind.) University and in 19081909 pursued a special course in the Waynesburg College, his thorough training well qualifying him for life's practical and responsible duties. Upon his removal to the west he became connected with the Toltec Live Stock Company and the Rockdale Live Stock Company of Rock River and was elected secretary of these companies in 1914. These companies are conducting a very extensive business in the raising and sale of live stock, handling blooded cattle and high grade sheep and horses. They have an immense ranch in Albany county, near Rock River, and Mr. John contributed in marked measure to the success of the company as its secretary until April, 1918, when he resigned in order to interest himself in the Fair Trading Company, a corporation which was organized in March, 1918, to conduct a general store and a trading business at Rock River. Mr. John, upon the incorporation, was chosen secretary-treasurer of the company. Formerly he was also director of several companies, of one of which Timothy Ross is the president and J. Ross Kelley vice president. Mr. John is an expert accountant and in 1911 was granted by the state board the right to pratcice as a certified public accountant. On July 5, 1910, he became a notary public and has continued to fill that position.
In December, 1910, Mr. John was united in marriage to Miss Maude Vance Shape, of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, who passed away in December, 1915, in her native city. She was a daughter of William and Jennie Shape, deceased, of that place. She left one child, Leslie C., Jr., who was born in Laramie, Wyoming, July 5, 1912. Her loss was deeply regretted not only by her immediate family but by many friends, for she had endeared herself to all with whom she came in contact during the period of her residence in the west.
Mr. John is a democrat in his political views and is now serving as justice of the peace at Rock River. In 1913 he was called upon to represent his district in the state legislature and proved a most active working member of the assembly. He is widely known throughout his section of the state and stands very high in public regard by reason of his capability and progressiveness as a business man, by reason of his public-spirited citizenship and by reason of his marked devotion to the general good.