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Leonard Case was born on July 29, 1786 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the oldest son in a family of eight children. His father, Meshach Case, was of Dutch, and his mother, Magdalene Eckstein, of German descent. They were farmers, and Leonard passed his time as did other country boys between short terms at school and long periods of farm work. One of his early recollections was of the Whiskey Insurrection in his neighborhood.
In his autobiography he makes the observation that a cause of the insurrection was the scarcity of currency, and that the presence of the Federal army soon placed in circulation a supply which relieved the situation. In the spring of 1800, tales of the country west of Pennsylvania attracted the Cases to Warren, Ohio, where they obtained a two-hundred-acre farm. In October 1801, Leonard was prostrated with fever, possibly as a result of exposure while ranging the woods for cattle. Complications left him a cripple for life, necessitating the use of a cane and a crutch. He faced the handicap with courage, purchased a Dilworth arithmetic, borrowed Gibson on Surveying, and set about their mastery as the first step in his new plan of life. In 1806 he secured a place as assistant to the clerk of courts at Warren and in 1807 he was appointed clerk of the supreme court. He was employed for a time in the office of the Connecticut Land Company. In the latter office his association with Gen. Simon Perkins, chief agent of the company, proved to be the foundation for much of his later business success. In 1816, the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie was founded in Cleveland, and Case became cashier. The years immediately after 1816 were precarious for the banking business in the West, and in 1819 the bank closed. Some years later, in the thirties, it was rehabilitated with Case as president, but in the meantime he had returned to his law practise and to the real estate business, with intervals in public office. From 1820 to 1824, he was auditor of Cuyahoga County; from 1821 to 1825, president of Cleveland Village. In 1824 he was elected to the state legislature where he distinguished himself for his work in behalf of the Ohio canals. From 1826 to 1830, he was prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga County, and in 1838, after Cleveland became a city, he was elected a member of the council. When Cleveland's first railroad project, the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati, was organized in 1847, Case was a director and vice-president, and for two years, until his health prevented, he took an active part in the building of the railroad. After closing out the land agency, Case spent the remaining years of his life caring for his own properties.
His claim for remembrance by posterity rests upon his part as a builder of early Cleveland, he advancement of its material well-being and the promotion of civic pride. Case gave to many charitable organizations, including Cleveland's first school for the poor, the Cuyahoga County Historical Society and the Cleveland Medical College.
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He married Elizabeth Gaylord.
