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	Levi Leiter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Levi Ziegler Leiter (November 2, 1834 - July 8, 1904) was a Chicago businessman and partner of Marshall Field who co-founded what became the Marshall Field and Company retail empire.
		Leiter was born to Joseph Leiter and Anne Ziegler of Leitersburg, the Washington County, Maryland town founded by his grandfather, Abraham Leiter.
		Leiter died in Washington, D.C. In 1865, Leiter and Field bought into a small dry goods business run by Potter Palmer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Levi_Leiter (183 words)

	Who Owns The West? Mining Claims in America's West
		Levi Z Leiter is one of 92,125 beneficiaries of a 132-year-old federal mining law that gives away precious metals, minerals, and even the title to the land itself for less than $10 an acre.
		Levi Z Leiter gained title to an estimated 350 acres of lands previously owned by the public giving Levi Z Leiter more total land holdings (claims and patents) than 91.7% of all other mining interests.
		Levi Z Leiter is one of 63,768 beneficiaries of a long-standing federal subsidy called "patenting" that allows mining interests to purchase public land for no more than $5 an acre.
	www.ewg.org /mining/owners/overview.php?cust_id=1807391 (393 words)

	History of Ziegler, Franklin County, Illinois
		Leiter was so sure that his mine would be the largest and the most modern, he used champagne instead of water to mix the cornerstone concrete with.
		Here on the Leiter property in Franklin County was an abundance of quail and ducks, buffalo and deer, and plenty of rabbits and squirrels, and they knew it was perfect spot for the President to live.
		The Leiters and their rich friends knew it was time to flex their powerful financial muscles and call in the political favors, and attempt to convince the President to move the White House and the nations capital to the Leiters Franklin County town of Zeigler.
	genealogytrails.com /ill/franklin/zeigler.html (1349 words)

	Zeigler, Illinois - A Breath Away From Being the Nation's Capitol
		It was here that in 1901 a Chicago multi-millionaire named Levi Zeigler Leiter, and his son Joseph brought the family fortune and began building a small empire.
		The Leiters and their rich friends knew it was time to flex their powerful financial muscles and call in the political favors, and attempt to convince the President to move the White House and the nation’s capitol to the Leiters Franklin County town of Zeigler.
		Once in a while the name of Joseph Leiter may be mentioned in a conversation between history buffs or from an elderly resident, but to the younger generation, Zeigler is just the small town where they live.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /IL-Zeigler.html (1445 words)

	Zeigler, Illinois Website
		Leiter sold his share of the business to Field in 1881 and the store was renamed, Marshall Field's.
		Leiter owned considerable real estate in the Chicago area and was involved in local philanthropies.
		A National Historic Landmark, it was designed by William Le Baron Jenney, the so-called "father of the skyscraper." This building was erected by Levi Leiter; later, it was leased by Sears, Roebuck and Co. for its flagship department store.
	www.zeigleril.com /pages/noteable/leiter.htm (325 words)

	FULTON COUNTY INDIANA
		Miss Leiter was a member of Rochester Methodist church and was an active worker in the religious and social affairs of that organization.
		Survivors are: her sister, Mollie LEITER, of 316 West Eighth street, this city; three brothers, Ulysses LEITER and Levi LEITER, both of Rochester, and Ed LEITER, of Allentown, Pa.; a niece, Kathryn HUNNESHAGEN, of Detroit, Mich., who formerly made her home here with her aunts, and several other nieces and nephews.
		Nelson, son of Levi and Fianna ROUCH was born in Liberty township, Fulton county, Indiana on January 1st, 1867.
	www.fulco.lib.in.us /Tombaugh/Obituaries/Html/1944.htm (18039 words)

	Amazon.com: "Levi Leiter": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He and bookkeeper Leiter had a lot in common and a lot that set them apart.
		Leiter had joined the firm in the same year as Field, worked his way up...
		In 1854, Levi Leiter had left Leitersburg for Chicago to work for a firm of merchants; there, he met a friend of his own...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Levi-Leiter (578 words)

	NCAW Spring 05 \| Leanne Zalewski on Alexandre Cabnel's Portraits of American "Aristocracy" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Mary Leiter was the daughter of Levi Leiter, a dry goods millionaire who co-founded Leiter and Field, now known as Marshall Field's department store, and also served briefly as president of the fledgling Art Institute of Chicago.
		Leiter and her mother sat for Cabanel on a trip to Paris in 1887, and Mary's portrait was exhibited at the Salon the following year, where it attracted favorable attention.
		Leiter, dressed in a Worth gown, and George Curzon, held their reception in the Leiter's Washington D.C. mansion.
	www.19thc-artworldwide.org /spring_05/articles/zale.html (5122 words)

	Biography for: Levi Ziegler Leiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Levi Ziegler Leiter was a businessman and collector of JW's work (see Rosy silver - The Pink Porch (M.1008) and transcription">#13083).
		Leiter was a partner in the firm of Marshall Field, who established a retail emporium in Chicago.
		He sold his share of the business to Field for $2,500,000 in 1881 and devoted himself to his property interests and to philanthropic activity.
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Leit_LZ.htm (95 words)

	Leiter Family Genealogy Forum
		Re: Nancy (Leiter) Clagett - Yachting - Stephanie McLennan 6/13/06
		Re: Leiterer or Leiterer - Carolyn Marshall 12/14/04
		Re: Leiterer or Leiterer - Carolyn Marshall 7/10/05
	genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?leiter::51.html (1271 words)

	TIME.com: Litigous Leiters -- Jul 26, 1937 -- Page 1
		When old Chicago's Levi Zeigler Leiter died in 1904, aged 69, he left behind him a wife, a son, three daughters and $30,000,000.
		For eight long years Marguerite sat on one side of a courtroom flanked by various Leiter-blooded, titled British progeny, staring icily across at her brother Joseph's bald head, demanding that the Illinois courts remove him as trustee of the Levi Leiter estate, charging incompetence and extravagance, calling for a special accounting.
		Awaiting her death for their termination are trust restrictions on part of the Leiter fortune which last week were again before the courts in Chicago.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,758059,00.html (683 words)

	Colorado Central Magazine July 2004 Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Field, however, was one of the dry-goods merchants who accompanied May to Twin Lakes and Leadville in 1877, and Field knew a promising investment when he saw one.
		Leiter soon invested in ditch and mining companies -- by buying out the interests of William H. Stevens, one of the discoverers of Leadville's silver deposits.
		But he and his dry-goods partner Leiter did make some money from Leadville, and Field went on to run what was once the largest dry-goods firm in the country, and to endow a Chicago museum.
	www.cozine.com /archive/cc2004/01250041.html (523 words)

	TIME.com: Litigous Leiters -- Jul 26, 1937 -- Page 2
		When the widow of Levi Leiter died in 1913 she created a $600,000 trust fund of her own.
		When the last of Levi Leiter's own children died, the three boys would get the $600,000.
		Polo-playing Tommy Leiter, 27, son of Joseph, lives in Washington, D. Colin Campbell, 30, son of Nancy, lives in California where he is an official in a cement machine business.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,758059-2,00.html (419 words)

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		Convinced by their former partner and real estate developer Potter Palmer, Field and Levi Leiter built a six-story store sheathed in white Connecticut marble.
		The Second Leiter Building is internationally known as an early Chicago School skyscraper.
		Occupying a full city block, this eight-story building was developed by Levi Leiter and first leased to the "Big Store," Siegel, Cooper & Co. Neither ornate nor exclusive, it offered a wide range of goods at low prices.
	www2.rmcil.edu /cepperly/gssc/copy/Cultwalk.txt (3965 words)

	Ruins of the Mammoth Store of Field & Leiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The six-story Field & Leiter Store, erected in 1868, was located, as its successor Marshall Field's is today, at State and Washington.
		The store was a leader in the new style of urban retailing, featuring a vast array of goods elegantly displayed in separate departments (hence, department store) staffed by trained sales clerks who treated their fashionable clientele more like guests than customers.
		Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter, who had also been partners in an earlier dry goods business, had started this operation by purchasing Potter Palmer's store in the mid-1860s, shortly after which Palmer left the firm.
	www.chicagohs.org /fire/media/pic0017.html (234 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago--Marshall Field and Company
		Field and Leiter move into a new building owned by Potter Palmer on the northeast corner of State and Washington Streets.
		Field and Leiter return to State Street, occupying the five-story Singer Building at their old location on the northeast corner of State and Washington Streets.
		Field and Leiter end their partnership of 16 years and the firm takes the name of Marshall Field and Company.
	chicago.urban-history.org /ven/dss/fields03.shtml (939 words)

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		He withdrew from Field, Palmer and Leiter after the Civil War for a bit of rest and to give attention to a dream that he had formed.
		Field and Leiter were burned out, too, and sought refuge in the car barns at 20th and State Streets.
		Field and Leiter were insured for $3,500,000; they recovered $250,000, just a fraction.
	www2.rmcil.edu /cepperly/gssc/copy/history.txt (6791 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century \| People & Events
		He got a job at Potter Palmer's dry goods store and when Palmer retired from the retail business, Field and his partner Levi Leiter took over.
		After the Great Fire of 1871, Field and Leiter disagreed over the direction of the business.
		Field bought out Leiter in 1880 and the business took his name.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_field.html (755 words)

	Whistler Correspondence: JW to Levi Ziegler Leiter, 22 August [1891] [13083]
		Whistler Correspondence: JW to Levi Ziegler Leiter, 22 August [1891] [13083]
		Levi Ziegler Leiter (1834-1904), industrialist and collector [biography].
		Written in an unknown hand, possibly that of William Bell, JW's secretary [biography].
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /letters/13083.asp (53 words)

	Marshall Field Summary
		In 1864 Levi Z. Leiter, a large-scale real estate operator, joined the company as a silent partner.
		When Palmer retired in 1867 and Leiter in 1881, the organization became Marshall Field and Company, owned almost entirely by Field and run directly by him.
		Field and a partner, Levi Leiter, joined another dry goods store owned by Potter Palmer.
	www.bookrags.com /Marshall_Field (610 words)

	Re: Leiter Department Store, Hagerstown, MD
		I remember my Dad mentioning Leiter's Department Store and the owner as being one of our relatives.
		Thought perhaps Levi Leiter, who was part owner of Marshall Field in Chicago was involved in starting it, but it was only a guess.
		Levi didn't have a son by the name of Roy, so I'm probably wrong.
	genforum.genealogy.com /md/messages/7407.html (78 words)

	Schupp-Shupp-Shopp Family Tree - pafn07 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Henry Leiter was living on a farm next to his parents in liverpool Twp.
		Information for this family was found in the History and Genealogy of the Leiter Families, John A. Leiter, 1971, pages 18 - 19.
		Information on this family was found in History and Genealogy of the Leiter Families, John A. Leiter, p 23.
	www.myancestralfile.com /schupp/pafn07.htm (666 words)

	Graceland Cemetery: Marshall Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Marshall Field (1835-1906) was the wealthiest man in Chicago of his time, worth an estimated $100 million when he died.
		Originally working as a clerk for Potter Palmer, he saved half of his $400/year salary, and in 1865 with his partner Levi Leiter bought Palmer's dry-goods store.
		Field and Leiter eventually became "Marshall Field and Company", which is now one of the most successful and widespread department-store chains in the world.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/graceland/field.html (132 words)

	Department Stores
		In the mid-1850s the young Field moved to Chicago and worked his way through various retail establishments.
		Field's early partnerships with Potter Palmer and Levi Leiter were significant precursors to the establishment of Marshall Field and Company in 1881.
		Along with Marshall Field's, other establishments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also thrived in the Loop shopping district, including Carson Pirie Scott and Company, Mandel Brothers, the Fair, and Schlesinger and Mayer.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/373.html (938 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Remembering Marshall Field's
		Four years later, a young man named Marshall Field joined Palmer in the dry goods business, and later bought it out with partner Levi Leiter, according to the Web site Jazz Age Chicago.
		Field and Leiter moved their store in 1868 to its current location at State and Washington streets.
		The original building was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and a replacement structure built on the same site also burned down two years later.
	cbs2chicago.com /vault/local_story_252085543.html (792 words)

	Field (Marshall) & Co.
		Not satisfied as the junior partner in Farwell, Field and Co., Field left in 1865.
		That year, he joined Levi Leiter and Potter Palmer to create a new dry-goods house, Field, Palmer, Leiter and Co.; after Palmer sold out in 1867, this became Field, Leiter and Co. This new company operated on a very large scale, with about $9 million in wholesale and retail sales in 1867.
		Although two of its stores burned during the 1870s, the company continued to do an immense business.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2663.html (557 words)

	Miss Daisy Leiter (Later Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire)
		Margaret ('Daisy') Leiter was the daughter of Levi Z. Leiter of Chicago whom made his money in the dry goods business and real estate.
		Mary Leiter was the first wife of George Nathaniel Curzon.
		While Curzon and Mary were Viceroy and Vicereine of India, Daisy paid a visit to her sister.
	www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/Miss_Daisy_Leiter.htm (125 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago--Marshall Field and Company
		Because Field lacked the $750,000 in capital to purchase the business outright, Palmer arranged for Field and his associate Levi Leiter, with the help of a generous line of credit from New York bankers, to become senior partners in his business.
		Field contributed $250,000 in capital to the new venture, Leiter $120,000, Palmer $330,000, and Palmer's brother, Milton, $50,000.
		In 1868, Palmer convinced Field and Leiter to relocate their wholesale and retail operations to a new, six-story edifice he owned at the corner of State and Washington Streets.
	chicago.urban-history.org /ven/dss/fields.shtml (3877 words)

	man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		After nine years of saving his four hundred dollar a year salary, he had $30,000 and decided to start his own business.
		A few years later in 1865 he went in to business with Potter Palmer and becamehis partner along with Levi Leiter and started what is now known as today Marshall Field and Company.
		They were able to build up business due to attractive window displays as well as money-back guarantees.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /gildedage/culturaltourism/marshallfield/man.html (318 words)

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