Name Adna Leonard | Died May 3, 1943 | |
Bishop Adna Wright Leonard I (November 2, 1874 – May 3, 1943) was a Methodist Bishop in Buffalo, New York and the first chairman of the Methodist Commission on Chaplains. He was killed in 1943 in a plane crash on his way to Iceland to visit Methodist chaplains and their troops.
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He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 2, 1874, to Adna B. Leonard. He was elected Bishop in 1916.
He married Mary Luella Day (1873-?) on October 9, 1901, and had the following children: Adna Wright Leonard II (1904-?); and Phyllis Day Leonard (1907-?).
He was elected to the Episcopacy of the Methodist Episcopal Church at the 1916 General Conference. He served in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
He was killed on May 3, 1943, in a plane crash on his way to Iceland to visit Methodist chaplains and their troops.