Leonard Mackall

Leonard Mackall
Born
Leonard Leopold Mackall

January 29, 1879
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DiedMay 19, 1937(1937-05-19) (aged 58)
Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.
Burial placeBonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation(s)Historian, biographer

Leonard Leopold Mackall (January 29, 1879 – May 19, 1937) was an American historian. He was an eminent biographer.

Early life

Mackall was born in 1879 in Baltimore, Maryland,[1] to Leonard Covington Mackall and Louisa Frederika Lawton.[2] His father died when Leonard was eleven years old.[3] He had one brother, Alexander Lawton, and one sister, Corinne.[2]

He graduated from Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey in 1896,[1] before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1900.[4][5] He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1902,[2] then studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Jena.[4]

Career

In 1916, Mackall was tasked, by Wymberley Wormsloe De Renne, to fill in the spaces on the shelves of De Renne Georgia Library, established by De Renne on the family's Wormsloe Estate in Savannah, Georgia.[2] Mackall worked on the project until the latter stages of World War I.[6][7]

Personal life

Mackall was named president of the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA)[8][9] in New York and, in 1937, of the Georgia Historical Society.[4] In 1920, he was also elected to the Century Association, having been nominated by Robert Grier Monroe and Gari Melchers, Mackall's brother-in-law;[1][10] Melchers married Mackall's sister.

He was also a member of Savannah's Oglethorpe Club.[2]

Death

Mackall died in 1937 at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia,[4][11] aged 58.[2] He had been ill for several months.[2] He was interred in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery.[2][12]

References

  1. ^ a b c Wroth, Lawrence C. (1938). "Leonard Mackall". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 22 (1): 10–15. ISSN 0016-8297.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (1937-05-20). "LEONARD MACKALL, BIBLIOPHILES' HEAD; President of Bibliographical Society of America Dies in Virginia at 58 EDITED GOETHE LETTERS Had Been Savannah Librarian and Also Headed Georgia Historical Society". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  3. ^ Harding, Jayne (February 28, 2004). "A Renaissance Woman". The Free Lance-Star. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  4. ^ a b c d "Leonard L. Mackall - Georgia Historical Society". Georgia Historical Society. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  5. ^ "Mackall, Leonard L. (Leonard Leopold), 1879-1937 | Johns Hopkins University Libraries Archives Public Interface". archivesspace.library.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  6. ^ Wormsloe, Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library (1931). Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library at Wormsloe: Isle of Hope Near Savannah, Georgia ... Privately printed.
  7. ^ "De Renne Family". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  8. ^ Van Hoesen, Henry B. (1941). "The Bibliographical Society of America—Its Leaders and Activities, 1904–1939". Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 35 (3): 177–202.
  9. ^ Malloch, Archibald. “DEATH OF MR. LEONARD L. MACKALL. Consultant in Bibliography.” The Georgia Historical Quarterly 22, no. 1 (1938): 16–21.
  10. ^ "Leonard L. Mackall – Member Directory – Century Archives". centuryarchives.org. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  11. ^ "Leonard Leopold Mackall. | American Antiquarian Society". www.americanantiquarian.org. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  12. ^ "Leonard L. Mackall – Member Directory – Century Archives". centuryarchives.org. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
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