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Below is a family biography included in Portrait and Biographical Record of Seneca and Schuyler Counties, New York published by Chapman Publishing Co., in 1895. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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WILLIAM E. LEFFINGWELL, the manager and principal proprietor of The Glen Springs Sanitarium, was the youngest son of Dr. Elisha Leffingwell, a distinguished physician of western New York, and was born at Aurora, on Cayuga Lake, July 10, 1855. He prepared for college in Cayuga Lake Academy, and entered Cornell University in September, 1871, in the Class of ‘75, but left before graduation to continue his studies in the collegiate department of the Polytechnic Institute in the city of Brooklyn. With the financial department of this institution he became connected in 1875, remaining over seven years.
In the summer of 1882, the sanitarium at Dansville having been destroyed by fire, Mr. Leffingwell was invited to assist his brothers and cousin in the organization of a new institution (now known as the Jackson Sanitarium), and of this, for several years, he was Treasurer and Manager. In January, 1890, happening to visit the site of the present establishment at Watkins, he became convinced that, with its singular variety of valuable mineral springs and magnificent situation, overlooking Seneca Lake, it was an ideal place for a great health resort, and with Dr. James K. King, Dr. E. D. Leffingwell and other associates, he founded The Glen Springs Sanitarium, of which he is the manager and principal owner.
Mr. Leffingwell has attained high rank in the Masonic fraternity. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, and has been District Deputy Grand Master of the Twentieth Masonic District in the state of New York.
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