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Levi Ziegler Leiter (November 2, 1834 – June 9, 1904) was an American businessman based in Chicago. He co-founded what later became the Marshall Field & Company retail empire.
Mar 17, 2003 · Levi. Z. Leiter of Chicago died suddenly early yesterday morning at the Vanderbilt college, Bar Harbor, Me., where he was spending the summer with his family. The end came suddenly, following an attack of heart failure shortly after midnight.
Feb 23, 2020 · Levi Z. Leiter. Although Field and Leiter were temperamentally and philosophically incompatible, they spent a decade and a half sharing ownership of Chicago’s finest dry goods emporium and an allied wholesale business of ever-growing magnitude.
Levi Leiter: Levi Leiter, one of Chicago's leading nineteenth-century businessmen, was an early partner of Marshall Field and Potter Palmer in dry goods merchandising and, later, a major investor in real estate, stocks, and securities. He was born November 2, 1834, in Leitersburg, Maryland, the son of Joseph Leiter and Ann Zeigler.
Levi Ziegler Leiter. Merchant, Real Estate Entrepreneur, Millionaire Co-founder of Field, Palmer, Leiter & Co., which became Marshall Field & Company, a large department store in Chicago. Invested in real estate in the Chicago area.
Feb 2, 2020 · Marshall Field’s partner, Levi Leiter, built early on Calumet, early enough that a half million dollars’ worth of goods rescued from Field and Leiter early during the night of the Great Fire of 1871 was bustled down to be stored within the vast mansion.
That year, he joined Levi Leiter and Potter Palmer to create a new dry-goods house, Field, Palmer, Leiter & Co.; after Palmer sold out in 1867, this became Field, Leiter & Co. This new company operated on a very large scale, with about $9 million in wholesale and retail sales in 1867.
