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J. Sala Leland › Texts

Short Name: J. Sala Leland
Full Name: Leland, J. Sala (Jacob Sala), 1871-1957
Birth Year: 1871
Death Year: 1957

Born: 1871, Penn­syl­van­ia. Died: June 10, 1957, Tem­ple Ci­ty, Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­forn­ia.
A grad­u­ate of Adri­an Col­lege and Soule Col­lege, Le­land was or­dained a Meth­od­ist min­is­ter in 1900; as of 1907, he was liv­ing in Un­ion­town, Penn­syl­van­ia. He served church­es in Brad­dock, North Side, Sharps­burg, Waynes­burg, Bea­ver Falls, East Li­berty, and Beech­view, Penn­syl­van­ia. He al­so served as sec­re­ta­ry of the Pitts­burgh Evan­gel­i­cal Con­fer­ence, cir­cu­la­tion man­ag­er for a Meth­od­ist news­pa­per, pre­si­dent of the Meth­od­ist Pro­test­ant Home for the Aged, and state sec­re­ta­ry of the Chris­tian En­dea­vor or­gan­i­za­tion. He re­tired around 1941.

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