Edward R. Ladew
Edward R. Ladew was the cofounder of Fayerweather amp Ladew with Daniel Burton Fayerweather, a leather manufacturer. In 1893 he became vice president of the United States Leather Company. He owned the yacht Orienta and the mansion Elsinore.
He was born on February 18, 1855 in Shokan, New York to Rebecca Krom and Harvey Smith Ladew I . He joined the leather manufacturer of J. B. Hoyt amp Co. in 1877 where he met Daniel Burton Fayerweather. Ladew was married January 26, 1886, to Louise Berry Wall, the sister of the famous dandy Evander Berry Wall. She was the daughter of Charles Wall. They had two children, Harvey Smith Ladew and Elise Wall Ladew who married William Russell Grace III . Elise Ladew was painted in November 1911 by the Swissborn American artist Adolfo MllerUry, a friend of her uncle Evander Berry Wall, in an oval portrait, now in a private collection in Ketchum, Idaho.
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