Charles E. Leach, 1852-1919

LEACH

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Date: 11/21/2010 at 14:06:05

Leach, Charles E., of Leach & Morrison, hardware merchants, was born in Holyoke, Mass., July 6th, 1852. In 1854, with his parents, he moved to Lyndon, Wis., and in 1861 to New Lisbon. During the time he lived in the latter place he attended the public schools and subsequently became a clerk in a bank of that city. In 1875 he went to Vermillion, Dakota, where he accepted the position of book-keeper in one of the banks. In 1878 he came to Spencer and entered the hardware business with J. W. Snyder. Mr. Snyder subsequently sold his interest to Wm. Morrison, and the firm of Leach & Morrison was formed. Mr. Leach, in addition to attending school in New Lisbon, spent several terms at Beaver Dam, and also attended commercial college in Milwaukee. He is a young man, of great force of character, with a keen, practical turn of mind, unassuming in manner, but full of energy and business. He has been very successful in the hardware business. Mr. Leach has been married twice.

Source: A History of Clay County, by W. C. Gilbreath, 1889.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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