Charles E. Leach Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

Surname: LEACH
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1186

  CHARLES E. LEACH, proprietor of a flourishing bakery in Ports-
mouth, N. H., was born in the ward he now lives in, January 19, 1858, a
son of Charles E. and Elizabeth ( Merrill ) Leach. His father and 
mother were natives respectively of Eliot, Me., and Portsmouth, N. H., 
and when young went to the same school to which our subject's 
grandchildren now go. The father was a carpenter and joiner by trade. 
Both are now deceased. Their

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children were: Effie, the widow of Frank Field of Cambridge, Mass., and
Charles E.; whose name appears at the head of this sketch.
  Charles E. Leach acquired his education in the common schools. On
completing his studies he began to learn the trade of baker at his 
present location, subsequently buying out the business, which he is now 
conducting very successfully, having a good market for his product in 
Portsmouth. The ovens in the bakery he owns are over 125 years old. The 
buildings are different, but there has been a bakery at this stand for 
125 years. Mr. Leach employs five hands and uses one wagon to deliver 
his goods. An independent in politics. he has served as alderman and as 
a member of the council. Mr. Leach married Carrie W. Sowerby, a 
daughter of James and Jose phine ( Gowen ) Sowerby, her father being a 
master baker under whom our subject learned his trade. Mr. and Mrs. 
Leach have three children: Bertha, who is the wife of Harley Giles and 
has two children, both daughters--Edith and Arline; Marian, who married 
Reginald Goldsmith of Portsmouth, a machinist at the Portsmouth Navy 
Yard, and has a son, Kennard; and James S., who is associated with his 
father in the bakery, as also is Mr. Giles, Mr. Leach'son-in-law. The 
family attend the Christian Baptist Church.

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