He was born in Waterloo (Blackhawk County) Iowa, where he lived at 414 Allen St. (GPS coordinates of 414 Allen Street are Map datum NAD 27 UTM Zone Conus 15 T 0553540 Easting 4704204 Northing) with his brother Alexander Dwight and his sister Elizabeth Beckwith. He was named for his godfather, General Leonard Wood, the Commander of American forces in Cuba, for whom his grandmother was secretary. At age 2 months he moved with his family to Oelwein, Iowa where they lived from 1 Jul 1905 until late March 1909. His brother, Arnold Beecher, was born 29 May 1907 in Oelwein. In late March 1909 (age 3) he moved with his family to 602 S. College Avenue, Aledo, Illinois where they lived until 1 Sep 1919. His sister Mary Isabel was born in Aledo on 2 Feb 1911. From 1 Sep 1919 (age 14) to June 1921 (age 16) they lived at 1092 North Broad Street, Galesburg, Illinois. 1 Jan 1921 his father moved to 217 N. 1st Street, Muskogee, Oklahoma. The family stayed behind in Galesburg until June, 1921 to finish the school year. His brother Alexander graduated from Galesburg High School in June 1921 and left that fall for Maryville College in Tennessee. Their address from 3 Sep 1921 to 16 March 1923 was 528 N. 6th Street in Muskogee. ®10 On 6 Sep 1923 they lived at 2805 West Okmulgee Avenue in Muskogee. ®10 He graduated from Central High School, Muskogee, Oklahoma on 24 May 1923 (age 18), having had 3 years of Latin and mathematics up to Trigonometry. ®10 His long time friend Amick C. Sponsler lived at 2603 Garland Street, Muskogee. His first high school girl friend was the beautiful Josephine Neubald. His next high school girl friend was Mildred Farrington who waited for him until he finished college and medical school; after which he married Ann Matkovich. He worked for many summers with his brothers Arnold and Alexander and his friend Howard Fletcher as professional fishing guides for Wambolt’s Camp on Big Mantrap Lake, Dorset, Minnesota. His best friend there and throughout his life was Howard Fletcher. Howard, Boone and Jane Fletcher (born 1911) spent summers on Big Sand Lake at their grandfather, Mr. Balle’s, house which was immediately east of the Moody cottage which was called Camp. Mr. Balle was a German immigrant who owned a department store in Dennison, Iowa. Leonard, as well as his brother Alexander, attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota for the 1923-4 school year, where Leonard was the President of the Freshman Class. He then attended LaFayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania for 3 years, starting September 1925 and received a Bachelor of Science degree 8 June 1928 ®11 (age 23), at which time he listed his address as 437 N. 14th Street, Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was a varsity debater and orator and was a member of Tau Kappa Alpha National Honorary Forensic Fraternity at LaFayette College. Both Macalester and LaFayette Colleges are affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, of which his father was a Minister. His father died on 3 August 1928, shortly after his graduation. He received Oklahoma Public School Teachers Certificate A28611 dated 11 September 1928, expiring 15 June 1929, which allowed him to teach grades 1 to 12. He taught school in 1928-1929. The summer of 1929 he again guided at Wambolt’s Camp, Big Mantrap Lake, Dorset, Minnesota. His father had died in 1928, and with no manse, his mother had to move in autumn 1929 with Arnold, Elizabeth and Mary to Cottey College at Nevada, Missouri. On his 27 September 1929 admission records to the Graduate Medical School of the University of Chicago he listed his home address as 1313 Fondulac, Muskogee, Oklahoma. ®11 From the autumn quarter of 1929 ( he had summer vacation in 1930, and probably was at Dorset, Minnesota) through the summer quarter of 1931, ®11 while at the University of Chicago, he used Dr. K. Watkins, 5608 Kenwood Avenue, Chicago, Illinois as his college mailing address. He was six feet and one inch tall, weighed 200 pounds and had blue eyes and brown hair in 1930. He then attended the Rush Medical College of the University of Chicago from July 1931 through the winter quarter of 1933. ®11 ®12He received the James Nelson Raymond Scholarship in Medicine for 1931-2 ($375). ®12 He was a member of Phi Chi Medical Fraternity. ®11 26 December 1933 while at the Rush Medical College at St. Luke’s Hospital (Indiana Avenue and Michigan Avenue) he lived at 3456 West Monroe Street, Chicago. His Muskogee mailing address in December 1933 was c/o Mildred Farrington, his girl friend, at 550 North Tenth Street, Muskogee, Oklahoma. He received his Master of Science in Medicine on 12 June 12 1934 and his Doctor of Medicine on 11 June 1935 from the Rush Medical College of the University of Chicago, 600 South Paulina Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612 ®11 (following completion of his one year Internship, at no salary, at Ancker Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota from 1 July 1934 to 30 June 1935). He was then 30 years old and his mailing address was Arnold B. Moody, Dorset, Minnesota. Following his Internship he took a one year residency in Medicine at Ancker Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota from 1 July 1935 to 30 June 1936 ($50/month). He received his Minnesota Medical License 7699 on 4 May 1936. On 30 June 1936 he bought his first car, a used 1929 Reo coupe for $150. On 27 June 1936 he bought a diamond engagement ring for $25.00 from Bullard Brothers, St. Paul. Nine days after completion of his residency, 9 July 1936 (age 31) at Duluth, Minnesota, he married Ann Matkovich, a nurse he met at Ancker Hospital. They spent July at Camp at Big Sand Lake, Dorset, Minnesota. He first became employed as a physician as a First Lieutenant, Medical Corps, U. S. Army Reserves, his commission effective on 7 Oct 1936, for the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was the camp physician for Company 2706, Camp SP-6 (Yellowbanks Camp), Hinckley, Minnesota where he was stationed from August 1936 to February 1937. Ann stayed at Camp at Dorset while he looked for a place for them in Hinckley. His next job was as a Staff Physician at the Minnesota State Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Ah-Gwah-Ching), Walker, Minnesota, from February 1937 ($180/month plus a house) to 19 September 1942 ($215/month). Their first son David was born 18 June 1937 and their second son Michael on 31 March 1940. He applied for a Commission but was rejected for military service at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, February 1942 because of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis. His next job was as a Staff Physician at the Minnesota State Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Ah-Gwah-Ching), Walker, Minnesota, from February 1937 ($180/month plus a house) to 19 September 1942 ($215/month). supervising 35 employees. GPS coordinates of Pureair Sanatorium are Map datum NAD 27 UTM Zone Conus 15 T 0665301 Easting 5186956 Northing. He also practiced as the family physician for Bayfield by providing house calls in the evenings after his work at the Sanatorium was completed. His Wisconsin Medical License was 8952. He became a member of the American Trudeau Society in 1943, and a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians 18 Mar 1944. His 1944 gasoline ration card said he had a 1940 Oldsmobile. On 5 August 1946 he was 6 feet 1 inch tall and 205 pounds and earning $450/month when he applied to be a Chief of the Department of Medicine in the Veterans Administration. He lived those 25 years with his family in the house provided for the doctor on the Sanatorium grounds (the house and groceries were provided as part of his salary). His recreation was fishing, especially fly fishing for trout on the local streams. Their son Peter was born in 1943 and son Thomas in 1948. He served as President of the Bayfield School Board for 12 years, resigning on 31 December 1959. He had his first coronary thrombosis 7 September 1954 (age 48). In 1960 he was President of the Mississippi Valley Trudeau Society. In January, 1960 while in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the Mississippi Valley Trudeau Society meeting, he had a heart attack and was hospitalized at Columbia Hospital. In 1963 he received the Wisconsin Anti Tuberculosis Association’s 6th annual Distinguished Service Award. "In Wisconsin’s north, he has ably administered one of Wisconsin’s representative county sanatoriums; he has treated its sick and won their faith and love. He has carried on an effective case finding and diagnostic service over a wide three-county area - and thereby has uncovered and brought under treatment many unknown cases. He has read films (chest x-rays) for physicians in an even wider area as well as for the state board of health mobile unit program, and he has been a pioneer spirit in building up the Pembine tri-state therapy conference. He has given state and regional leadership, too, as president of both the Wisconsin and Mississippi Valley Thoracic Societies. Like his patients, the tuberculosis workers of Wisconsin have learned over many years to know and admire Dr. L. W. Moody of Bayfield.” He retired 9 May 1967, at age 62, because of his ill health (multiple heart attacks beginning in 1954) to a new home they had built in 1964 for $21,988 on Moody family property at Camp on Big Sand Lake, Route 3, Box 45, Park Rapids, Minnesota 56470 (West 32 Rods of Lot 5, Section 27 Township 141, Range 34) (2009 address is 19326 Grouse Road, Park Rapids, Minnesota 56470. The GPS coordinates of 19326 Grouse Road are Map datum NAD 27 UTM Zone Conus 15 T 0350695 Easting 5205861 Northing). He died 2 years later (age 64) 15 November 1969 of an acute basilar artery stroke. The GPS coordinates of his grave site in Bayfield, Wisconsin are Map datum NAD 27 UTM Zone Conus 15 T 0665296 Easting 5186962 Northing.

Where did he teach the second year...did he have a teaching certificate or did he teach at the medical school? Was it in Muskogee, as he had a return address of 2805 W. Oklahoma, Muskogee on the back of a photo of his friend Tanglen playing football for the University of Minnesota, so probably after Macalester year. Check with Muskogee school district. Letter sent on 12 Aug 2006.
Where was he is 1924- 1925 between Macalester and Lafayette?
Where was he 1928-29? Teaching and living with his widowed mother and siblings in Muskogee?
Where was he the 14 months from the end of winter quarter of 1933 until he started his internship 1 Jul 1934? (he sent a telegram to Dr. Foster at 3456 West Monroe St, Chicago from Muskogee on 29 December 1933)