Leona Leffingwell

Leona Leffingwell comes for a long linage of administrative assistants. Her Great Great Grandmother, who lived in Mierovo, Slovkia outside of Bratislava, was the administrator of words for Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht, Kingdom of Prussia. She was wooed by Wilhelm II after a brief encounter of the two at a café near the town of Reutingen where the King saw her fine penmanship. Her Great Grandmother left the region after the fall of the House of Hohenzollern and traveled South and then West by way of boat to New York City.

There she was the main administrative personnel for Deputy Sheriff John T. Miller in Queens, New York. She rose to the sop secretary and received the “Secretary of the Year” by the City or New York. Leffingwell’s mother then was recruited as the master note taker of Ligonier Mine and Coal Co. in Peanuts PA. Leffingwell absorbed these skills and was appointed the Interim Secretary of Membership and Office Activity of the Society for Pennsylvania and Surrounding Area History and received her degrees from Youngstown State University and Kent State University.