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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Levi Ziegler Leiter was a Chicago businessman. He co-founded what became the Marshall Field & 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. As a boy, Leiter worked for a dry goods business in Springfield, Ohio. In 1853 he began working as a bookkeeper at Chicago's then-largest dry goods company, Cooley, Wadsworth & Co., where he worked alongside Marshall Field and Potter Palmer. Leiter and Field became partners in the firm, but in 1865, they sold their interest in the company and went into business, along with Palmer, as Field, Palmer, Leiter & Co. In 1866, Leiter married Mary Theresa Carver of Chicago. In 1867, Palmer left his business to pursue real estate ventures, and the company was renamed Field, Leiter & Co. Field & Leiter built a six-story store on State Street in 1868

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics

• Full title: Levi Leiter
• Subtitle: Marshall Field's, Dry goods, Marshall Field, Potter Palmer, Great Chicago Fire, Dupont Circle
• Author: Aaron Philippe Toll
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104
• EAN: 9786138130918
• ISBN: 613813091X
• ID: 07000132
• Publisher: Ceed Publishing
• Weight: 163 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. October 2011

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