Edward and Clara Norton Furness Leigh were married 15 Nov. 1876 at Furnessville, Indiana, where her parents lived in the town named for them.
The couple shared a great-grandfather, immigrant Capt. Thomas Leigh. Edward descended from Capt. Thomas Leigh's son Major Thomas Leigh Jr. and Clara descended from Capt. Thomas Leigh's daughter Martha. Martha had moved to what became Furnessville with her orphaned grandchildren, including Edwin Leigh Furness, Clara's father. Edward's parents, instead, were in New York between Maine and St. Louis.
Edward's company in Chicago was credited with inventing or perfecting locomotive brake shoes. It was called the Chicago Railway Equipment Co., a successor to the National Hollow Brake Beam Co.
The couple shared a great-grandfather, immigrant Capt. Thomas Leigh. Edward descended from Capt. Thomas Leigh's son Major Thomas Leigh Jr. and Clara descended from Capt. Thomas Leigh's daughter Martha. Martha had moved to what became Furnessville with her orphaned grandchildren, including Edwin Leigh Furness, Clara's father. Edward's parents, instead, were in New York between Maine and St. Louis.
Edward's company in Chicago was credited with inventing or perfecting locomotive brake shoes. It was called the Chicago Railway Equipment Co., a successor to the National Hollow Brake Beam Co.
Edward and Clara Norton Furness Leigh were married 15 Nov. 1876 at Furnessville, Indiana, where her parents lived in the town named for them.
The couple shared a great-grandfather, immigrant Capt. Thomas Leigh. Edward descended from Capt. Thomas Leigh's son Major Thomas Leigh Jr. and Clara descended from Capt. Thomas Leigh's daughter Martha. Martha had moved to what became Furnessville with her orphaned grandchildren, including Edwin Leigh Furness, Clara's father. Edward's parents, instead, were in New York between Maine and St. Louis.
Edward's company in Chicago was credited with inventing or perfecting locomotive brake shoes. It was called the Chicago Railway Equipment Co., a successor to the National Hollow Brake Beam Co.
The couple shared a great-grandfather, immigrant Capt. Thomas Leigh. Edward descended from Capt. Thomas Leigh's son Major Thomas Leigh Jr. and Clara descended from Capt. Thomas Leigh's daughter Martha. Martha had moved to what became Furnessville with her orphaned grandchildren, including Edwin Leigh Furness, Clara's father. Edward's parents, instead, were in New York between Maine and St. Louis.
Edward's company in Chicago was credited with inventing or perfecting locomotive brake shoes. It was called the Chicago Railway Equipment Co., a successor to the National Hollow Brake Beam Co.
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