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Dr. J. F. Leslie was born at McLeansboro, Ill., in 1879. His father, James F. Leslie, is at this time adjusting attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. His mother, Miss Lora Casey, belonged to a distinguished Irish family. Her father, widely known throughout Southern Illinois, as “Buck” Casey, was a mail contractor, providing stages for a large number of stage routes before there were any railroads in Southern Illinois. The doctor’s maternal uncle, Sam Casey, was circuit judge of the Mt. Vernon (Ill.) circuit for twelve years. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of McLeansboro, and in the Evansville High School. He is a graduate of the Northwestern University Medical College, Chicago, and held an internship in the Post-graduate Hospital of Chicago for one year, and took a post-graduate course in the same school in 1909, and again in 1911. He began practice in Jonesboro, Ark., afterward practiced in Maunie, Ill., until November, 1912, when he removed to Mt. Vernon, where he now resides. He was married to Miss Stella Weber of Salem, Ill., in January, 1909. The doctor is now surgeon for the Chicago, Evansville & Louisville railroad.