Frank A. Leach

Frank Aleamon Leach (August 19, 1846 – June 19, 1929) was an American newspaperman who was Director of the United States Mint from 1906 to 1909. In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the heroic efforts by Frank A. Leach and his men preserved the old San Francisco Mint building and the bullion that then backed the nation's currency.

Biography

Frank A. Leach was born in Auburn, New York, on August 19, 1846, the son of Edwin Warren Leach and his wife Mary A. Leach. When he was a boy, his father moved to Sacramento, California, to establish a bottling plant there, and Frank and his mother later joined his father there. In 1857, the family moved to Napa, California.

Frank Leach died on June 19, 1929. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California), plot 14B.

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