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LEONHARD KAUFMANN, roller, Pittsburgh, was born in Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, Sept. 29, 1839, and is the youngest of the six children of Peter and Elizabeth (Boch) Kaufmann. In 1848 the family came to America, and after sojourning in various parts of Ohio, settled at Columbus, in that state, in 1855. Here the father, who was a blacksmith, died in 1860, aged sixty-one; his widow passed away two years later, at the age of sixty. When ten years old, Leonhard Kaufmann commenced work, when out of school, at tobacco stripping for a cigar-maker. At thirteen he entered a rolling-mill, and has followed the same employment ever since. In 1860 he came to Pittsburgh, and has had charge of a set of rolls at the Republic Iron works for several years. He has been a stockholder in the Birmingham Insurance company for twelve years, and for three years a director; is also a stockholder in the German Savings and Deposit Bank. He is liberal in religious views, and is a democrat. In 1865 Mr. Kaufmann married Carolina, daughter of Andrew and Katharina Decklar, all of Bavarian birth, latter of whom resides with the Kaufmanns. Eight children have been born to this union: Carolina (wife of Fred Dorzbacher), Charles, John (who died when a child), Louise, Amelia, Edward, Ida and Albert.