Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-09-24
E. B. LEISENRlNG DEAD.
Complication of Diseases Takes on the
Millionaire Coal Operator.

Complication of Diseases Takes on the
Millionaire Coal Operator.
Edward B. Leisenring, president of
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com
pany, died on Thursday at Hamburg,
Germany, aged 40 years. lie has been
suffering from complication of diseases,
aggravated by severe attack of indiges-
tion and the heat during the summer
months. He left this country on August
"a in the hope that he would be benefited
by the sea voyage and short rest
abroad. Gable advices received last
week were to the effect that he had
greatly improved, that he would prob
ably go to the springs at Homburg for a
few days, and that he expected to start
for home about the first of October. The
news of his death, therefore, came as
shock to those connected with the enter
prises in which he was prominent.
For some time past he had been living
on Broad street below Spruce, Phila-
delphia, but in the early summer pur-
chased handsome house in West Phila-
delphia and was having it arranged for
permanent residence. Mr.. Leisenring
was accompanied abroad by nephew
and some friends. Married but few
years ago, he leaves a wife and one child.
The deceased was the son of the late
Judge John Leisenring, of Mauch Chunk,
and brother of John Leisenring, Re-
publican candidate for congress in this
distsict He was born at Ashton, now
Lansford, Carbon county, on March s,
1915. He was educated in the Philadel-
phia Polytechnic college and early in
life went into the coal business. For a
number of years he was engaged in
mining at Audenreid, under contract
with the Lehigh and Wilkes Barre Coal
Company. This venture was a very
profitable one. He then branched out
into other fields and became connected
with the most profitable mining opera
tions in the anthracite region.
Mr., Leisenring was connected with
many enterprises. He was presi-
dent of the Upper Lehigh Coal Com
pany, the Pond Creek Coal Company
and the Nescopeck Coal Company, treas
urer of the Silver Brook Coal Company,
director of the Alden Coal Company and
Mt. Jessup Coal Company, and men,
ber of the coal firms of j. S. Wentz q
Co. and Thomas M. RICHTER & Co., and
the Albert Lewis Lumber Company.
He was also director of the Virginia
Iron Company, of Powelton, Va, and
the Pioneer Mining Company, of Bir-
mingham, Alabama. He also had large
individual possessions in the southern
states, and had done much to develop
that section of the country. He was
president of the First National bank of
Mauch Chunk, president of the Mauch
Chunk Electric Light Company, director
of the Bethlehem Iron Company, the
Bangor Slate Company and the Chap
man Slate Company, and had large hold
ings in other Lehigh valley industries.
MIR. Leisenring was twice married.
His first wife and two children preceded
him to the grave some years ago. He
afterward married Miss Anna W. Wick
ham, of New York, and besides his wife,
one child and his brother, John Leisen-
ring, he is survived by one sister, who is
the wife of DR.. John S. Vent. The
body will be taken to Mauch Chunk for
burial in the plot of his ancestors.
Mr.. Leisenring gave literally to local
charities, being contributor to the
Young Mems Christian Association,
Muhlenburg college, of Allentown, and
other institutions.