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Mortimer Dormer Leggett was born on his father's farm near Ithaca, New York, the son of Isaac and Mary (Strong) Leggett. When he was fifteen years old his parents moved to Montville, Geauga County, Ohio. Here Leggett helped his father clear the forests to obtain a farm.
In 1839 he entered Kirtland Teachers' School at Kirtland, Ohio, where he graduated at the head of his class. With the idea of practising law and specializing in medical jurisprudence, he then attended Western Reserve College. He supplemented his training by a special course at Willoughby Medical School.
Leggett was admitted to the bar in 1844. In 1846 he moved to Akron, Ohio. Having become deeply interested in the establishment of graded schools, he engaged with a group of others in behalf of this project. As a result of the agitation, the Akron School Law was enacted by the legislature in February 1847 and Leggett was employed by Akron as superintendent to execute its provisions. Three years later, 1849, he was called to Warren, Ohio, for a similar purpose, and it was here in 1850 that he began his law practice. In 1856 he became professor of law and pleading in the Ohio Law College at Poland, but in 1857 removed to Zanesville, Ohio, where he continued his law practice and served as superintendent of schools as well.
At the outbreak of the Civil War Leggett joined the staff of his friend Gen. George B. McClellan, and accompanied him into West Virginia, serving without pay. Later he was designated by Gov. William Dennison of Ohio to raise a regiment, and in forty days he enrolled 1, 040 men in the 78th Ohio Volunteers and was commissioned colonel. The regiment joined Grant's western army and Leggett commanded it at Fort Donelson, Corinth, and Shiloh. For his gallantry he was commissioned a brigadiergeneral in 1862, and during that year commanded his brigade in the fighting along the Mississippi, having had much to do with the laying of the mines in the siege of Vicksburg. Subsequently, he commanded the 3rd Division in the XVII Army Corps under Gen. John A. Logan in Tennessee. In 1863 he was brevetted major-general and in the battle of Atlanta, his division took and held Bald Hill, the key to the whole position, and now known as Leggett's Hill. He marched with Sherman to the sea and up through the Carolinas; participated in the grand review in Washington; was promoted to the grade of major-general of volunteers, and resigned his commission September 28, 1866.
Returning to Zanesville, he resumed the practice of law, and became connected with several manufacturing enterprises, all of which he gave up when President Grant appointed him commissioner of patents on January 16, 1871. His capacity for organization here found expression. He continued effectively the work and policies of his predecessors; had a reclassification of patents made; established the office of third assistant examiner; and by other activities concerned with its internal affairs, distinctly advanced the work and standards of the Patent Office. Following his resignation on November 1, 1874, he made his residence in Cleveland, Ohio, and engaged in the practice of patent law with his sons. In 1884 he organized and was the first president of the Brush Electric Company. After a struggle, this enterprise became highly successful and was finally absorbed by the General Electric Company.
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Leggett was twice married: first, on July 9, 1844, to Marilla Wells of Montville, Ohio, who died in 1876; second, in 1879, to Weltha Post of Sandusky, Ohio. He had one daughter by his first wife.
