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Leon E. Peeler, M. D., a prominent young physician and surgeon of Harrison, Westchester county, was born January 7, 1871, in Sodus Center, Wayne county. New York, and is a representative of a well-known family of that part of the state. His parents being George U. and Augusta (Ireland) Peeler, he is a descendant on the maternal side of Martha Biddle and Lorenzo Ireland, his great-grandparents, Martha Biddle having been a sister of the well-known Nicholas Biddle, who was president of the United States Bank at Philadelphia until it was dissolved, during President Jackson's administration.

The Doctor received his preliminary education at the high school at Sodus, New York, and commenced the study of medicine in 1889, under the direction of Dr. H. F. Seaman, one of the oldest practicing physicians of Wayne county. In the autumn of 1892 he entered the medical department of the University of the City of New York, where he was graduated in the class of 1895 with honor, winning by competitive examination after graduation a position as interne to Bellevue Hospital. In July of the same year he located at Harrison, where he soon succeeded in establishing a good practice, which he still enjoys.

In September, 1896, Dr. Peeler married Miss Katherine Seaman, a daughter of Benjamin B. Seaman and a niece of our subject's former preceptor. As a family they are actively identified with the interests of Harrison, and are regarded as prominent residents by the members of that growing town.