Mr. Liebfried, since 1911 identified with real estate dealings in Betlehem and until the death of his father the partner of the elder Liebfried, succeeds in worthy manner his honored father, whose career was productive of so much of benefit to the business interests of the locality and to the Moravian church, of which he was a member and a zealous worker in behalf of its different organizations.

John Edward Leibfried was born in Nazareth, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, February 21, 1879, and after attendance at the Moravian Preparatory School of Bethlehem, he entered Lehigh University, majoring in chemistry and graduating in the class of 1900. For a time he was employed as a chemist with the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, afterward serving in the same capacity with the Phoenix Cement Company of Nazareth for three years, then accepting a civil service appointment in the United States Reclamation Service at Denver, Colorado, filling the office for a period of five years. Returning East in the summer of 1911, he became his father's partner in real estate and insurance operations, a connection that continued until Mr. L. F. Leibfried's death in 1917. Mr. Leibfried is secretary and treasurer of the United Realty Company, secretary of the West Bethlehem Building and Loan Association, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and is a notary public. He has continued the business founded by his father, broadening its scope as the city has increased in importance as an industrial center, and holds important place in his line in Bethlehem. He is a Republican in political preference, an active worker in the Moravian church, and fraternizes with the Masonic order.