Leich Electric began as the Cracraft-Leich Electric Company, which was result of the merger of the Advance Electric Company and the Eureka Electric Company. The name was changed to the Leich Electric Co. in 1917. It was located in Genoa, Illinois in 1903, although its predecessors had been located in McCordsville, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois.[1]
Leich Electric manufactured telephone sets, and later produced small crosspoint telephone switches for the independent telephone companies. It was purchased by General Telephone Corporation in 1950.