John Leisenring, s/o John Conrad & Catharine (Grob) Leisenring, Jr. was married to Anna Maria (Stedman) Leisenring with whom he had nine children: Conrad; Juliet; John, Jr.; Theodore; Emily; Mary; Alexander; Charles; and Anna Leisenring.
John Leisenring, originally from Whitehall township, Lehigh Co., but for a number of years a resident of Philadelphia, where he learned the currier trade, came to Mauch Chunk in 1833. He had been a soldier in the war of 1812. The first occupation he followed here was that of a landlord, keeping the Mansion House very successfully for a number of years. Later he became a merchant and general businessman. He died in 1854, aged about sixty years. His oldest son, who bears his full name, was engaged as an engineer on the Upper Lehigh navigation improvement; was afterwards chief engineer and general manager of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, and still later chief engineer of the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad. Another son, A.W. Leisenring, is president of the First National Bank, and a daughter is the wife of A.A. Douglass. [RootsWeb]