John Thomas Leyden

1935 - 1985  (50 years)

• Name	John Thomas Leyden
  Birth	9 Jul 1935	Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire   [1, 2]
  History	According to his obituary "He graduated from Mount Hermon School and received bachelor's and master's degrees from Colgate University. Mr. Leyden served in the Army before entering the education field in 1961 at Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., as a history teacher. He later became assistant to the headmaster and director of admissions there. In 1967, he became headmaster of the Good Hope School on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and returned to Northfield-Mount Hermon School in 1973 as assistant to the headmaster and director of external affairs. He was elected headmaster of Hebron Academy in 1977. Mr. Leyden was a member of the Board of Overseers of Bustin's Island and trustee of the Hebron Community Baptist Church. He was appointed tot he Select Advisory Committee of Private Schools by the Maine commissioner of education and cultural services. A recent president of the Maine Association of Independent Schools and newly-elected president of the Independent Schools of Northern New England, he was also a member of the National Association of Secondary Schools."  [1]
  Residence	1963 (Age 28)	Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts   [3]
  Death	1 Oct 1985	Bretton Woods, Coos County, New Hampshire   [1, 4]
  	Cause: heart attack
  	He was stricken with a heart attack while attending the Conference of New England Educators in Bretton Woods.
  Person ID	I4531	| Spouse of a Delvee
  Last Modified	1 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	Peter Leyden, Jr.,   b. 10 Jan 1901, New York City, New York County, New York d. May 1978, Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Bridges,   b. 31 Oct 1902, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 1994, Auburn, Androscoggin County, Maine (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	20 Jun 1925	Weirs Beach, Belknap County, New Hampshire
  Age at Marriage	He : 24 years and 5 months - She : 22 years and 8 months.
  Family ID	F2153	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Beverly Ann Bolton
  Children	+ 1. John "Jack" Leyden, Jr. + 2. James Edward "Jim" Leyden + 3. Jeffrey Alan Leyden
  Family ID	F331	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 9 Jul 1935 - Laconia, Belknap County, New Hampshire Residence - 1963 - Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts Death - 1 Oct 1985 - Bretton Woods, Coos County, New Hampshire  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S269] Obituary of John T. Leyden "Hebron Academy Headmaster", (Portland, Maine: Portland, Maine Press Harald, 2 October 1985), Primary Source. [S320] Leyden, Beverly. letter: 2001-03-08 , ( Letter to Robert Roy, 8 March 2001), Tertiary Source. [S846] U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011). Fitchburg, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1963 [S388] Delvee Historian. Delvee Family Records 1887 - 1988, (Warwick, Massachusetts: manuscript, 1988).