Philadelphia-Montgomery-Berks County PA Archives Biographies.....LEAF, Edward Bowman March 3, 1866 - November 23, 1910
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Author: Philadelphia, A History of the City and Its People, Ellis P Oberholtzer, Vol IV, 1911: page 213-214

Edward Bowman LEAF:
The splendid success which made Edward Bowman Leaf one of the most prominent 
representatives of business interests in Philadelphia came to him largely as 
the result of the fact that he always continued in the line in which he 
embarked at the outset of his career, never dissipating his energies over a 
wide and varied field, but concentrating his forces upon the successful 
accomplishment of what he undertook in connection the the iron and steel 
business.  Thus he gradually advanced step by step and with definite aim and 
resolute purpose pushed forward to the goal of prosperity, which is the 
legitinate reward of all earnest and persistent endeavor.
    He was born at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on the 3rd of March, 1866, and, 
although he came to be ranked as one of the prominent business men of 
Philadelphia, passed away November 23, 1910, when but forty-four years of 
age.  His father was the Rev. Edmund Leaf, and his early home training was 
such as awakened him principles of honorable manhood that bore him, fruit in 
all his later life.  He had been well trained along educational lines, for 
after attending the Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, he became a 
student at Yale.  His initial business experience was as a member of the firm 
of Potts and Leaf of Philadelphia, and his association with that house was 
uninterrupted until 1900, when he left and organized E B Leaf Company, of 
which he was president until his death.  He was also President of the Spring 
City Bloom Works and a director of the Longmead Iron Company, of Conshohocken, 
Pennsylvania.
   On the 10th of December 1894, was celebrated the marriage of Edward B Leaf 
and Miss Elizabeth Trenchard, of Bridgeton, New Jersey.  They became the 
parents of two daughters, Harriet Clay and Frances Trenchard.
   Mr. Leaf was a member of St. Mary's church of West Philadelphia, of the 
Pennsylvania Historical Society, the University Club, and the Merion Cricket 
Club, and his political allegiance was given to the republican party.  He 
never sought nor desired the honors or emoluments of office, however, but 
preferred to concentrate his energies upon his iron and settl interests and, 
being a man of acceptable and superior business ability, advanced to a 
position of prominence.

Additional Comments:
NOTE: His parents were Rev. Edmund LEAF, born Pottstown, and Harriet Potts 
CLAY, of Evansburg, Montgomery Co PA.  Rev. LEAF founded St Michael's in 
Birdsboro, and is the only pastor buried there in the graveyard.

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