Philip Leiber, New York City, NY., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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Philip Lieber.  The Shreveport Mutual Building Association, of which 

Philip Lieber is president and with which he has been identified in 

some executive capacity for twenty years, is the largest building and 

loan company in the South, and has proved one of the corner stones of 

Shreveport's prosperity and home ownership.



Mr. Lieber was born in New York City, June 23, 1888, and in 1896 his 

parents moved to Shreveport.  He began his education in schools in his 

native city, and after he was eight attended grammar and high schools 

in Shreveport.  Mr. Lieber was a youth of seventeen when he was made 

assistant secretary of the Shreveport Building and Loan Association, 

and his faithfulness and ability have steadily advanced him through 

one position to another until in April, 1921, he was elected president.





This association was founded in 1887, and in a period of over thirty-

eight years it has never foreclosed on a homestead.  It has over six 

thousand stockholders, most of them in Shreveport, but many scattered 

all over the states of the Union.  Its record shows that it has 

maintained faithfully the basic principles of building and loan 

associations, and has been a remarkable institution for the encourage

ment of thrift and the promotion of home building and home ownership 

in Louisiana.



When Mr. Lieber entered its service the association had assets of 

$300,000, while now the assets total $9,500,000.  In 1923 the 

association occupied its new building, one of the finest of its kind 

in the country, at the corner of Crockett and McNeil streets, The 

subscribed capital stock of the company is in excess of $25,000,000, 

while its authorized capital stock under the law amounts to 

$100,000,000.



Mr. Lieber is one of the few men in Louisiana to be accorded the honor 

of the supreme honorary thirty-third degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, 

that degree having been conferred upon him at Washington under the 

southern jurisdiction in 1923.  He Is also venerable master of the 

Lodge of Perfection No. 8, and is a past master of his Masonic Lodge.  

He is a prominent member of the congregation B'nai Zion at Shreveport 

and is president of Louisiana Lodge No. 107, Independent Order of 

B'nai B'rith.  He is also vice president of Shreveport Library 

Commission.



On December 21, 1910, Mr. Lieber married Miss Clara Loewenstein of 

Waco, Texas, daughter of Isaac and Caroline (Newbauer) Loewenstein.  

To this Union have been born three children:  Elizabeth,  Rosabel and  

Philip Ben.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 139, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.