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was a Chicago businessman and partner of Marshall Field who co-founded what became the Marshall Field And Company retail empire. Leiter was born to Joseph Leiter and Anne Ziegler of Leitersburg , the Washington County , Maryland town founded by his grandfather, Abrahama Leiter. He married Mary Theresa Carver (1844-1913). Leiter died in Washington, DC . In 1865 , Leiter and Field bought into a small dry goods business run by Potter Palmer . When Palmer left the company in 1867 to pursue real estate ventures, the company was renamed Field and Leiter. The two men built a six-story store on State Street in 1868 . It was rebuilt after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 . When Leiter retired from the company in 1881 , the name was changed to Marshall Field and Company. SEE ALSO
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