- Age: 73
- Interview Date: 8/27/2007
- Interviewer: Dr. Richard Hull, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
- Interview Length: 47 minutes Sit Down Interview
- County: Champaign
- Dr. Leroy Biehl was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1934 to a Ford Motor Company employee. He grew up on a farm in Illinois and graduated from University of Illinois in Veterinary Medicine in 1958. He was a practicing veterinarian in southern Illinois until 1972, when he joined the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, from which he retired in 1999.