Sophia Leishman

Sophia Leishman is a modern-day descendent of an aristocratic American family profiled on the series American Dynasty.The grand matriarch of the Leishman family was the American heiress Nancy Louise Leishman, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1894. She was the youngest of three children born to John George Alexander Leishman(1857–1924), the President of Carnegie Steel who later served as the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, and Germany during the administrations of U.S. Presidents William McKinley, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Her mother was Julia Crawford (1864–1918). Nancy’s sister, Marthe Leishman, a favorite of King George V and a close friend of Cole Porter and Francis Poulenc, married into European aristocracy and descendants from that union include members of the Danish royal family.More historical information on the Leishman family can be found at leishmanfamily.info