LEINWEBER, Wesley John
Canadian Royal Flying Corps
Aerial Machine Gun Instructor
Born: November 17th 1896, South Easthope Twsp.
Died: March 11th, 1958
Attended: S.S. #7, South Easthope, Tavistock
Continuation, Naperville College
After the War: Teacher and Principal at Crown Point High School, Moosehart, Illinois; Regional Director of the Order for the State of New York
Family: Parents - Adam and Dorothea [Wilhelm]
Wife - Edith Bell Weiss
3 Sons
Comments: Moose Order at Moose Haven, Jacksonville, Florida; Moose Haven Research Laboratory for Gerontology.
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He attended S.S.#7 South Easthope School and Tavistock Continuation School. In 1919 he went to the U.S. and continued his education at Naperville College
in Naperville, Illinois. On December 31, 1924, he married Edith Bell Weiss, born in Bremen, Indiana. They had 3 sons, all of whom served in the Second World War.

He taught and was principal at Crown Point (Ind.) High School until 1928. He then went to Mooseheart, the childhood city of the Royal Order of Moose, just outside Aurora, Illinois, as principal of the Mooseheart High School. He became Superintendent of Mooseheart in 1934, and served in this capacity for 14 years. Mooseheart consists of 1300 acres and has its own farms, dairies and hospital. During this time there were 200 fireproof buildings built by different Lodges throughout Canada and the States. The Baby Village took the children under six years of age. On the death of any member of the Lodge, or his spouse, their dependent children are sent to Mooseheart for their care and education. Professor Leinweber felt these children constituted an ideal educational laboratory and claimed success for his experiment. He had his own philosophy of education. He considered what a student is best fitted for and then educated him/her along those lines.

Mr. Leinweber left Mooseheart in 1948 and accepted the position of Regional Director of the Order for the State of New York. He served the Moose there until 1951,when he went to Moosehaven in Jacksonville, Florida, the retirement village for senior members of the fraternity, as Superintendent. While at Moosehaven, Mr. Leinweber instituted a broad humanitarian program of service to the people of the community, and his wisdom, foresight and planning immeasurably raised both the physical conditions and morale of the residents. He was a tireless worker in advancing the aims of the Moosehaven Research Laboratory for Gerontology. He held this position until his death on March II, 1958.

During his lifetime Mr. Leinweber was the recipient of many awards both within the Moose fraternity as well as outside the Order. After Mr. Leinweber's death, his widow Edith returned to Syracuse, N.Y., where she died in 1982.

(The following poem PEARL HARBOR by W. J. Leinweber was printed in Mooseheart's Print Shop)
Pearl Harbor
Out of the night there came a sound.
Out of the night toward us bound,
Out of the night full-many around
Shattered the peace that men had found.
This sudden charge upon our land,
This cunning, malicious deception,
This expectant fault in our stand
Shall become their own defection.
For we when challenged sound muster;
For we when threatened take stand:
For we indulge no marauders,
Nor grant them reprieve in our land.
Their homeland we do not desire;
Their honor we would not defame;
Their freedom within their empire
We never subjected to claim.
They shall not find us awanting;
They shall not over us prevail;
They shall not set the accounting,
Nor shall they unbalance the scale.
Our nation will not be conquered.
Our nation will never retreat.
Our nation will be the stronger.
The aggressors shall know defeat.
Comes time; righteous peace shall be won.
Comes time; swords again shall be sheathed .
Comes time; full justic"e shall be done;
To the future, Freedom bequeathed .
Then shall mankind again prosper;
Then shall a torn world be rebuilt;
Then shall our age fear no longer
The spectre of Mars with his shield.
No more shall war be the measure,
Nor savage force be loosed in strife.
Peace and honor man will treasure;
Justice be the scepter of life.

* Dedicated to our Nation's Armed Forces
By W. J. Leinweber, Mooseheart, III.