Irving A. Leonard

Irving Albert Leonard (December 1, 1896 in

, such as A Frontier Library, 1799 (Feb. 1943, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 21–51).

Leoanrd was raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He did his undergraduate studies in Yale. He then worked for three years in the Philippines in the early 1920s. He also taught high school for a time in California before beginning his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1960, Leonard served as chair of the Conference on Latin American History, the professional organization of Latin American historians.

References

• [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2514708 John J. Tepaske. "An Interview with Irving A. Leonard" (despite the name, this begins with a brief biography written by the interviewer), The Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 63, no. 2 (May 1983), pp. 233–253.