Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Leite Family
LH-105
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Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Inventory
Introduction
This collection was given to the Rutherford B. Hayes
Presidential Center in 1985. Additional
information on the Leite family is available in the Hayes Presidential Center’s Biographical File.
Biographical Sketch
The Leite family has been associated with Fremont
since 1872, when Frederick Leite (1859-1926) accompanied his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Michael Leite, from their homeland in Baden,
Germany to Fremont.
The family quickly affiliated themselves with St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, an association
that was maintained for generations.
Frederick, who was a carpenter by trade, married Anna Marie
Gores (1860-1932), a native of Fremont,
on May 5, 1886. They were the parents of
eleven children, ten of whom lived to adulthood. They included: Agnes, Hadie, Anna, Carl,
Urban and Paul, all of Fremont; Marie and Hilda of Toledo; Fred Jr. of
Evansville, Indiana; and Herman, a priest for the Catholic Diocese of Denver,
Colorado until his retirement in 1974; and
Gertrude, a daughter who died at the age of 6 weeks.
Fred Sr. served as janitor of St. Joseph’s Church for nearly thirty years
until his retirement in June 1926. After
his retirement, the family moved from their home, a house owned by the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
on the corner of Clover and Court Streets, to their newly purchased residence
at 510 S. Wood St., Fremont, Ohio. Frederick Leite died of a stroke on August 4,
1926. Anna Leite followed her husband
five years later on December 8, 1932 at the age of 72.
Mrs. Leite was preceded in death by her son Fred Leite Jr.
(1893-1930), who died of tuberculosis.
During WW I, Fred served with the Knights of Columbus
War Welfare and Relief Organization in Kentucky,
Oklahoma, and Texas.
His sister Agnes (1888-1981) was the local parish secretary for 25
years. Rev. Herman Leite (1902-1983)
became an ordained Catholic priest on June 10, 1933 after spending several
years as a theological student in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Cincinnati, Ohio and Denver,
Colorado. Paul Leite, a lifelong resident of Fremont, served as clerk
of the Fremont City Council for more than 42 years before his retirement in
1983. He was also the owner and operator
of Columbia
Printing located at 517 W. State
St., Fremont, Ohio,
from 1925 to1982.
Scope and Content
This collection, spanning from the 1860s to1984, contains
approximately 123 photographs, 26 postcards, 6 church ledgers and a United
Brotherhood & Joiners of America
membership book pertaining to the Leite family of Fremont, Ohio. A portion of the photographs are pictures of religious
officiants, with a small number referencing St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church. The remaining photographs are of
a personal nature in regards to the Leite family. The church ledgers, also from St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church, document first communions, cemetery payments, tuition and religious
instruction from 1864 to1902.
Inventory
Ac. 4737
1/2
linear ft.
Box 1
1. List of First
Communicants, St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church, 1889
2. Register of
Religious Instruction, St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church,1873, 1879, 1881
3. St. Joseph’s Cemetery: Record of Payments,
1884-1893, 1891-1897
4. Tuition Register;
1864-1865
5. United Brotherhood
of Carpenters & Joiners of America
6. Account Ledger
(Agnes Leite); Jan- May 1902
7. Miscellaneous
Documents
8. Unidentified Photographs
by Sandusky County Photographers, children
9. Unidentified Photographs
by Ohio Photographers, children
10. Unidentified Photographs, children
11. Identified Photographs of Groups
Lakeside,
Ohio Aug. 22, 1909
Cousin
Dottie and Henry from Davenport
Quick
Family; baby John
From
Margaret to Catherine Gores
To Katie
Gores
Albert to
Catherine Gores
Truman, Ray
Eahart and unknown taken by Leanna at Denison
Train Depot
Carl Leite
and Miss Marie Dolwick
12. Unidentified
Group Photographs
13. Miscellaneous Photographs
Fenn St.
looking west; Woodhull, Illinois
Box 2
1. Photographs of religious
officiants and church sanctuaries
2. Postcards
3. Identified
Photographs- women
4. Unidentified Photographs
by Sandusky County Photographers- women
5. Unidentified Photographs
by Ohio Photographers- women
6. Unidentified Photographs
of women by unknown photographers
7. Identified
Photographs, men
8. Unidentified Photographs
by Sandusky County Photographers, men
9. Unidentified Photographs
by Ohio Photographers, men
10.Unidentified Photographs of men
by unknown photographers