Talk:Order of Heptasophs

Alexander Leonard Saunders
I'm adding these research results in case someone can find Wikipedia-appropriate documentation to support biographical reporting for this article on the purported founder of the Seven Wise Men (SWM): Pnoble805 (talk) 16:45, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Saunders is likely identical with Alexander Leonard Saunders of Lexington, Kentucky, who was a freshman in the medical class at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1826, according to the university's Catalog of Officers and Students, January 1826, pages 10 and 15.
 * Saunders appears in the 1850 US Census in New Orleans as A L Saunders, age 40 (born about 1810), born in New York State, physician. Wife Maria (26 Kentucky), son Colonna (11 Missouri), daughter Catherine (2 Louisiana). The household showed net worths for the wife and children totaling $38,000; Saunders' worth is obscured.
 * Saunders appears in the 1860 Census in Paducah,Kentucky as A L Sanders, age 51 (born about 1809), born in New York State, physician. Wife Maria L (37 Kentucky), son Cole (21 Missouri), daughter Kate (12 Louisiana), son Philip (9 Louisiana). Saunders had $15,000 in real property and $3000 in personal property.
 * Saunders is likely identical with Alexander Leonard Saunders MD who died of pneumonia 8 Dec 1868 and was buried at St Mark's Episcopal Church on 10 Dec 1868.
 * Saunders was not found in a search of the 1870 US Census.