Santa Clara County Biographies


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S. F. LEIB
 
S. F. LEIB came to this country in 1869, settling in San Jose. Mr. Leib was born 
in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1848, his father, Joseph Leib, having removed 
thither from Pennsylvania, with his parents in 1806, when but seven years of 
age. At this very early date in the history of Ohio the Indians had but recently 
held almost unlimited possessions, and an old Indian trail ran through the Leib 
farm.

Joseph Leib's wife was Clarissa Allen, a native of Ohio, her father having come 
there from Vermont at a very early date. Here in Fairfield county they lived 
their entire married lives, and here they died--Joseph Leib in 1880 , his wife 
in 1863. There were born to them three sons: L. H. Leib, who was killed at 
Bolivar, Tennessee, in 1862, while leading his company into action; Joseph Leib, 
now living in Illinois, and S. F., the subject of this sketch.

Mr. Leib, with his brothers , attended the public schools of their native 
section until he commenced the study of law at Ann Arbor, Michigan, from which 
institution he graduated in 1869. He relived the monotony of school life, 
however, by enlisting in Company E. 159 Ohio Infantry, in the spring of 1864, at 
the age of sixteen, but was mustered out of service the same year.

Since coming to California Mr. Leib has been not only a successful practitioner 
of the law, but fortunate in business ventures, and his lovely home on the 
beautiful Alameda is remarked by everyone who passes it. Here, after the 
business day is ended, he is received by wife and children into that true home 
peace and enjoyment which is worth the heaviest toil to win and here he expects 
to make his future home. Beside his city home, Mr. Leib owns one hundred and ten 
acres in the Capertino [sic] district, eight miles from San Jose, on the Stevens 
Creek road, which he has all planted in French prune trees, seventy acres of 
which are in full bearing. Mr. Leib varies the routine of law practice by 
experimental horticulture, in the success of which he finds much pleasure. He 
handles all his own prunes- drying them in the sun- and has already established 
for them a wide reputation on account of the thorough manner in which they 
drying and packing processes are accomplished.

Mr. Leib is a member of John A. Diz Post, No. 42, San Jose. G. A. R.

Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, 
Illustrated. - Edited by H.S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1888. p. 93
Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben