Boswell, H. James. American Blue Book Western Washington, Seattle, Lowman and Hanford Co., 1922. p. 192. ALTON W. LEONARD, president of the Puget Sound Power & Light company, of Seattle, in my opinion, is one of the ablest executives in the country. In fact Franklin T. Griffith, president of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, of Portland, is the only other executive in the northwest whom I would place on a par with Mr. Leonard, and I think I know practically all the big men on the Coast. Mr. Leonard is a native of Maine, born in 1873, and was educated in the public schools of Massachusetts. For a period extending over five years he was engaged with A. S. Porter & sons, Brockton, Mass., and later (1895) with Stone & Webster as assistant treasurer of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, Brockton, Mass. Of this company he later became, first Superintendent and then Manager. He afterwards managed the properties of the Houghton County Electric Light Company as well as the Houghton County Street Railway Company, Houghton, Mich. In 1907 he was made manager of the Minneapolis General Electric Company, following which he was named as Vice President and Manager of that Company and District Manager of the immense Stone & Webster properties in the central west. He has since 1914 headed the company of which he is still president, being one of the youngest executives in the country at that time. When he came to Seattle Mr. Leonard brought with him the splendid ideas and years of practical training which he had in the east, and immediately began to familiarize himself with local conditions. Mr. Leonard is a member of the Rainier, Arctic, Seattle Golf, Inglewood Country, University Golf, Rainier Gold, Everett Country, Tacoma Country and Golf, Bellingham and Skagit Country clubs; also the Chamber of Commerce, of Seattle, and Elks, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. Mr. Leonard married Miss Annie A. Keith, of Brockton, Mass., in 1897. Submitted by: Judy Bivens * * * * Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Washington Biographies Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the individual featured in the biographies.