Dr. John
D.
Leckner

DR. JOHN D. LECKNER was born in Philadelphia on May 9, 1853. After graduating from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia before his twentieth birthday, He came to Camden in 1876 and began his practice. He lived and practiced at 265 Kaighn Avenue through much of the 1880s until 1888 when he built a fine house across the street at 260 Kaighn.

Dr. John D. Leckner also was deeply involved in the political and civic life of Camden. He was the original Director of the Camden Republican Club. Dr. Leckner served on the Board of Education, as president of City Council, County Coroner, City Physician, President of the City Board of Health, Health Officer, and as a member of the city Board of Public Works. He also was one of the first doctors on the staff of the The West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital when it opened in 1885.

Dr. John D. Leckner died in 1900. He was buried at Harleigh cemetery in Camden, next to his wife, Elizabeth Greenfield Leckner, who died in October of 1889 at the age of 32.