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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. [1] [2]
Mar 17, 2003 · Chicago Tribune, June 10, 1904. 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. Also ever-growing was the partners’ disagreement about the importance of the retail arm.
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.
Jan 19, 2021 · Levi Ziegler Leiter was born in Leitersburg, Maryland (just north of Hagerstown) in the town founded by and named after his grandfather, Abraham Leiter. While some of his ancestors were Mennonites, Levi Leiter was raised as a Lutheran. Leiter began working as a clerk in the village store in Leitersburg, but in 1855 at the age of 21 he moved to ...
Feb 2, 2020 · The Leiter house on Calumet Avenue pre-dated the Prairie Avenue mania. 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. Delia Caton.
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Levi Z. Leiter was a business man in Chicago with extensive property interests in Wyoming and the West. On his death, his estate passed to his children; his son, Joseph Leiter became executor of the estate.
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