Henry Leaman Jr. was born on July 3, 1839, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Henry and Amanda Leaman. His father was a farmer who owned $27,000 of real estate and $1,960 of personal property by 1860. He grew up and attended school in Paradise, Pennsylvania, and he graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1859. He taught school in Paradise for a year before beginning medical studies in 1861.
He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1864, and he spent the following year serving as an acting assistant surgeon in Beaufort and Hilton Head, South Carolina. He settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, around 1865, and he earned a living as a doctor. He also worked as an assistant demonstrator at Jefferson Hospital, and he published several medical tracts. He married Mary McCallum on August 27, 1884, and their daughter Mary was born on April 23, 1888.
His wife died on August 3, 1891. He remained in Philadelphia until the 1910s, when he returned to Paradise. He died there of influenza on December 20, 1923.
Image: Henry Leaman Jr. (The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia)