Lewis Sheridan Leary, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLewis Sheridan Leary
American activist
Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1835
Place of Birth: Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 20-Oct-1859
Profession: abolitionist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Lewis Sheridan Leary
- Lewis Sheridan Leary (March 17, 1835 – October 20, 1859), an African-American harnessmaker from Oberlin, Ohio, joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, where he was killed.
- He was the first husband of Mary Patterson.
- By her second marriage to Charles Henry Langston, she became the future maternal grandmother of poet Langston Hughes.
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