Biographical sketch extracted from:

Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. pp. 738.

LEANDER E. MADDOX, M. D., of Keystone, was born in Chester Township this county, May 11, 1851, son of Wesley H. and Eliza Ann (Grove) Maddox. His father was born in Highland County, Ohio, of English descent, and his mother was born in Fairfield County, same State, her parents being early settlers in that county. Both came to Indiana with their parents when young, the parents of the father settling in Harrison Township, Blackford County, and those of the mother, in Harrison Township, Wells County. Both families found their land covered with a heavy growth of timber, and both started to make clearings and erect necessary buildings. Wesley H. bought land in Chester Township, section 36, about 1845 or 1846, and in 1849 he was married. He is still a resident of the township, but his wife died May 9, 1874. Leander E. was reared in Chester Township, and has always made that township his home with the exception of six years' residence in Newville. He commenced his education in the common school at the Maddux schoolhouse, section 36, Chester Township, and at the age of fifteen years commenced attending the school of Professor J. S. McCleary, where he studied three or four terms, He then went to Liber College, Jay County, and attended there two years. In 1871 he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Doster, of Poneto, and attended the medical department of the Michigan State University, at Ann Arbor, 1873—'74—'75, graduating the last Wednesday of March, 1875. He then went to Vera Cruz and commenced the practice of his profession. In 1881 he settled in Keystone, where he has since practiced, and he is the only physician in Chester Township. He was married Angust 20, 1871, to Miss Mary E. Newman, a native of Huntington County, this State, and daughter of John and Lydia Newman. They have two children—Myrtie and Katie. Politically the doctor is a Republican. He is a member of Bluffton Lodge, No. 142, A. F. & A. M. His mother was the first school-teacher in Chester Township, and the first lady teacher in Wells County