An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 458-459

	PROF. LUCIUS H. LEACH, Superintendent of the City Schools of Vancouver, was
born in Outagamie county, Wisconsin, October 1, 1855, a son of Alden D. and
Eunice (Hersey) Leach, the former a native of New York, and the latter of Maine.
The parents located in Wisconsin in an early day, but in 1872 removed to
Mitchell county, Kansas. During his early life our subject worked on the farm
and attended the public schools during the winters. After the removal of the
family to Kansas he engaged in teaching, and later graduated at, the State
University at Lawrence, Kansas, in the class of 1884. He resumed teaching; was
concerned in merchandising for a time; was proof-reader on the Kansas City
Times; again taught school at Stockton, Kansas, one year, and then for the
second time embarked in mercantile pursuits. One year afterward Mr. Leach was
chosen by the independent Republicans as a member of the lower house, to
represent the 116th Legislative District. August 18, 1888, he arrived in Tacoma,
Washington, and at once became bookkeeper for the Northern Pacific Railway
Company at Hot Springs, but fourteen months later took charge of the city
schools at Vancouver. Among those who have taken a deep and lasting interest in
educational matters and in the training of the young, that they may be in a
fitting condition from an educational standpoint to enable them to successfully
cope with requirements of business life in this work-a-day world, none of our
educators is more worthy or clearly entitled to honorable mention in State
history than Mr. Leach. He is recognized as one of the most competent educators
of southwestern Washington, and his services in this city have not only been
creditable to himself but highly satisfactory and acceptable to the County
Superintendent and the Board of Education. When Mr. Leach took charge of the
Vancouver schools there were but five teachers and an enrollment of 200 pupils.
At this date there are sixteen teachers and an enrollment of over 800 pupils.
Mr. Leach is a single man, and affiliates with no clubs or secret orders except
the Sons of Veterans. He was appointed by Governor Ferry as a member of the
first State Board of Education.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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