Jeweller, optician.
Born in Ontario on 23 May 1875, son of Rev. John J. Leach and Emma Purkis, by 1901 he was working as a jeweller at Neepawa, Manitoba. In 1909, he was appointed to the first Board of Examiners of the Manitoba Association of Optometrists. On 9 January 1901, he was married to Alice Victoria Riesberry (1877-?) at Oxford, Ontario. They had three children: Audrey Edith Leach (b 1902), Mabel Olive Leach (1904-1908), and John Arthur Leach (b 1906), all born at Neepawa.
He died at Neepawa on 22 July 1930.
Birth and marriage registrations, Ancestry.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Birth and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
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