Leonard Mackall

Mackall was born in 1879 in Baltimore, Maryland, to Leonard Covington Mackall and Louisa Frederika Lawton. He had one brother, Alexander Lawton, and one sister, Corinne. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1902, then studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Jena. == 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. In 1920, he was elected to the Century Association, having been nominated by Robert Grier Monroe and Gari Melchers, Mackall's brother-in-law. Mackall was president of the Bibliographical Society of America in 1936-1937. In 1937 he was president of the Georgia Historical Society. He was also a member of Savannah's Oglethorpe Club. == Death ==

Mackall died in 1937 at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia, aged 58. He had been ill for several months. ==References==