William Pillsbury Leeman

William Pillsbury Leeman (he preferred the middle name “Henry”)

The youngest of John Brown's raiders by about two weeks (he was born on March 20; Oliver Brown on March 6), William Henry Leeman was born in 1839 in Maine. He went to Kansas in 1856 and joined John Brown in September of that year. He died October 17, 1859, at Harpers Ferry.

Source:

http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/hfraiders.html

William H. Leeman, born March 20, 1839, and killed on October 17, 1859, the youngest of the raiders, had early left his home in Maine, being of a rather wild disposition. Owen Brown found him hard to control at Springdale. Mrs. Annie Brown Adams writes of him: "He was only a boy. He smoked a good deal and drank sometimes; but perhaps people would not think that so very wicked now. He was very hand- some and very attractive." Educated in the public schools of Saco and Hallowell, Maine, he worked in a shoe-factory in Haverhill, Massachusetts, at the age of fourteen. In 1856 he entered Kansas with the second Massachusetts colony of that year, and became a member of John Brown's "Volunteer Regulars" September 9, 1856. He fought well at Osawatomie, when but seventeen years old. George B. Gill says of him that he had "a good intellect with great ingenuity.

Burial: John Brown Farm Grounds, North Elba, Essex County, New York

Sources:

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/jbrown/men.html

http://abolitionist-john-brown.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-field-yell...

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Leeman&GSiman...