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Eugene Leach, Racine Historian<\/p><\/div>\n

Anyone who gets interested in Racine history eventually runs into Eugene Walter Leach (1857 or 1858-1938)\u00a0<\/span>because he wrote so many books and articles. When I was curious about the cemeteries in Racine, I ran across an article written by E. W. Leach and I enjoyed it a lot. Mr. Leach had a wonderful way of writing about history in a detailed interesting way that made it a pleasure to read: Racine Cemeteries<\/a> One of my favorite books that he wrote is called The Methodist Church and Early Racine<\/a>. The title is misleading because the whole first half of the book is about the people who founded Racine and who made it such an amazing place to work and live toward the end of the 19th century. Check out the index of this book — I just ran into Daisy Winnifred Brumsey<\/a> again: Brumsey, Winnifred- 843 College Ave. From Eugene Leach’s biography in The Methodist Church and Early Racine:<\/p>\n

Eugene W. Leach was born Sept. 15, 1857, at Excelsior, Minn.; came to Racine in 1859, and lived here since; choir singer; Sunday School librarian, sec’y, teacher and sup’t.; steward; now living at 736 Wis. St., Racine, Wis. The compiler and author of this book.<\/p>\n

I think his wife was Katherine, and he son was George W. Leach. He may have had a daughter Alice Leach. More possible information on wife Katherine: In the 1930 Census, she was listed as Katherine M. Leach, age 70, born in Missouri. Timeline<\/p>\n