Aaron W. (Aaron Whitney) Leland

Born in 1787 and dying in 1871, he was an American Presbyterian clergyman whose name appears in 19th-century religious publishing. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827, created with Elihu W. Baldwin, which suggests he took part in the era's sermon and tract culture.

Available online sources for his life are limited, so many personal details are hard to confirm. A modern Presbyterian reference notes his full name as Aaron Whitney Leland and preserves a brief memorial trace of him, while the surviving publication record shows him best as a minister-author rather than a broadly documented public figure.

That small footprint is part of what makes him interesting today: he belongs to the large group of early American religious writers whose work was influential in its moment even if their biographies were only lightly recorded.