Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Leib, S. F. 1848 - 
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Author: Eugene T. Sawyer (1922)

  S. F. LEIB.-For more than half a century associated with the jurisprudence of
Santa Clara County, Judge S. F. Leib forcibly impressed his personal and
professional worth upon the community. A native of Fairfield County, Ohio, he
was born in the year 1848, his parents, Joseph and Clarissa (Allen) Leib, being
natives of the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively.

  S. F. Leib received his preliminary education in the public schools of Ohio;
later at a private academy before entering the University of Michigan, where he
was graduated in 1869, receiving his degree of LL. B. In the spring of 1864, at
the age of sixteen, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred Fifty-ninth
Volunteers, Ohio Infantry, serving in the last year of the war. He is now a
member of the John Dix Post No. 42, G. A. R. In 1869 he removed to San Jose,
where he entered the law firm of Moore and Laine, and later D. M. Delmas entered
the firm. This partnership was dissolved in 1879. During the year of 1903, Mr.
Leib was appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, but
resigned before the end of the year to resume his private practice. For years he
has served as vice-president of the First National Bank of San Jose; also as
director and attorney for the bank. The attainments of this fine and noble early
settler are such as to enroll him for all time with the history builders of the
beautiful Santa Clara  Valley.

  His marriage December 15, 1874, united him with Miss Lida Campbell Grissim,
and to them have been born five children; Lida C, the wife of Chas. D. Armstrong
of Omaha; Elna, the wife of Professor H. W. Wright; Frank A., manager of one of
the Leib orchards; Roy C., attorney at law and partner of Mr. Leib; Earl, a
resident of Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Leib also have four grandchildren.
Politically Mr. Leib is a stalwart supporter of the Republican party;
religiously he was born and reared a Methodist. He occupies an enviable position
in the community in which he lives, as a man who serves wisely and well as a
jurist, and commands the highest esteem of those with whom he has been
associated. Aside from his legal practice, Mr. Leib is extensively interested in
orchard property.


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HISTORY OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
EUGENE T. SAWYER

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
1922


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