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Leonard Wheeler Kephart

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Birth	:	10 Jan 1892 Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, USA
Death	:	10 Feb 1988 Germantown, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Burial	:	Monocacy Cemetery, Beallsville, Montgomery County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.1800003, -77.4163971
Plot	:	Row M, Lot 2 Upper, Site 5
Description	:	Parents: - Horace Sowers Kephart [1862-1931] - Laura White (Mack) Kephart [1862-1954] Married Frances (Frazer) Kephart Children: - Jane Frazer Kephart Keller - George Overton Kephart [1920-2011] - Barbara Kephart Crane Graduated from Cornell University (1913) Scientific assistant for the Federal Goverment (1917) Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry (1942) Military Service U.S. Army, WWI Enlisted: 21 Oct 1918 Discharged: 19 Mar 1919 Aug. 30, 1927 Leonard W. Kephart, Class of 1913, is the first American to scale Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. He was in Africa on a search for new... Read More	Parents: - Horace Sowers Kephart [1862-1931] - Laura White (Mack) Kephart [1862-1954] Married Frances (Frazer) Kephart Children: - Jane Frazer Kephart Keller - George Overton Kephart [1920-2011] - Barbara Kephart Crane Graduated from Cornell University (1913) Scientific assistant for the Federal Goverment (1917) Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry (1942) Military Service U.S. Army, WWI Enlisted: 21 Oct 1918 Discharged: 19 Mar 1919 Aug. 30, 1927 Leonard W. Kephart, Class of 1913, is the first American to scale Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. He was in Africa on a search for new grasses for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Kephart took four days to reach the peak, slogging through snow-covered gravel the last day. The climb was not entirely without scientific reward, reported the Cornell Alumni News (Nov. 10, 1927). Kephart discovered three new varieties of clover on the expedition. Obituary The Washington Post - February 12, 1988 Leonard W. Kephart, 96, a retired agronomist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and later the World Bank, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 10 at Shady Grove Adventist Nursing Center in Rockville. Mr. Kephart worked for the Department of Agriculture in Washington for 36 years before retiring in 1949 as senior agronomist for weed control. In 1927 and 1928 he was one of two leaders of a safari across the plains of East Africa in search of new forage grasses for introduction into the United States. From 1950 until he retired a second time in 1957, Mr. Kephart worked for the World Bank as an adviser on agricultural projects in various countries around the world. He was born in Ithaca, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell University [1913]. During World War I he served in the Army. A resident of Takoma Park for 45 years, Mr. Kephart was a member of the Takoma Mandoliers, the Takoma Horticultural Club, the American Peony Society and the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church. In recent years he had lived at his son's farm in Poolesville where he did gardening and collected stamps. His wife, Frances Frazer Kephart, died in 1971. Survivors include three children, Jane K. Keller of Stanford, Calif., George O. Kephart of Poolesville and Barbara K. Crane of Edgewater, Md.; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

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Leonard Wheeler Kephart's memorial is located at: Monocacy Cemetery, Beallsville, Montgomery County, USA.
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Leonard Wheeler Kephart death on 10 Feb 1988 in Germantown, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
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Latitude: 39.1800003
Longitude: -77.4163971

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Frances Frazer Kephart

(1887 - 1971)

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George Overton “Bud” Kephart

(1920 - 2011)

B Crane

(1923 - unknow)

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