Leffingwell was editor of The Living Church magazine from 1880 to 1900.
From 1906, he was President of the Leffingwell Rancho in Whittier, California, the land for which he had acquired earlier. His son Charles Warring Leffingwell (sometimes written as Charles W. Leffingwell Jr.) was responsible for the active management of the ranch, which produced fruits and nuts (lemons and walnuts).
His other son, Ernest de Koven Leffingwell was an arctic explorer and geologist. Leffingwell provided partial financial support for his son's explorations.
Leffingwell moved to Pasadena, California (of which Herringshaw's lists him as a founder) in 1908. He died there on October 10, 1928.[2]
Leffingwell Road, which goes through South Whittier, East Whittier, and Whittier, was named after him. Another small segment of Leffingwell goes through the city of Norwalk.
Published works
Reading Book of English Classics for Young Pupils (New York: Putnam, 1888)
Lyrics of The Living Church (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1891)
The Laughing and Sorrowful Rain, and Other Poems (Privately printed, 1899)
A Book of Prayers, together with Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Ancient and Modern (Milwaukee: 1922)
Early Days at St. Mary’s, Knoxville, Illinois (Milwaukee: Morehouse Publishing, 1926)
The Leffingwell Record: A genealogy of the descendants of Lieut. Thomas Leffingwell Pequot Press, Chester, Connecticut 1897
References
Perry, Albert James. History of Knox County, Illinois: Its Cities, Towns and People, S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912. Volume 2 p 1133
Brown, John Howard. The Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Comprising the Men and Women of the United States Who Have Been Identified with the Growth of the Nation Republished by Kessinger Publishing 2006 without identification of the original. Volume 5 p31. (Worldcat shows only one edition under this title with volume 5 published 1903)
Herringshaw, Thomas William. Herringshaw's American blue-book of biography. American Publishers' Association, 1914, p602
References
^ a bThe National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. V. James T. White & Company. 1907. pp. 266–267. Retrieved March 23, 2021 – via Google Books.
^"Dr. Leffingwell, Clergyman and Educator, Dead". Chicago Tribune. October 11, 1928. p. 18. Retrieved March 23, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
Southern California Days of Lemons, Roses and a Shopping Mall history and further development of the Leffingwell Ranch.
Charles W. Leffingwell Bunkhouse Greene & Greene virtual Archives.
St. Mary's and St. Albans schools in historic pictures
Works by or about Charles Wesley Leffingwell at the Internet Archive