A. Leo Weil was a Pittsburgh attorney whose clients included public utilities, small steel companies, hotels, banks, and department stores in Pittsburgh. Weil was also a major civic leader in the city. Responding to the poor conditions in working class Pittsburgh (as documented in the Pittsburgh Survey of 1907) and the corrupt politics of the Magee Flynn political machine, concerned citizens, including Weil and his wife, worked to improve the city. Weil helped to found the Voter Civic League in 1902 and served as its president from 1905 until 1922. Members of the Weil family, including Isaac L. Weil Sr. (b. 1822), father of A. Leo Weil, immigrated to Richmond, Virginia, in the mid 1800s from Bavaria. The Weils initially settled in Keysville, Virginia, but moved to Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the early 1870s when the oil and gas industry was booming in that area. The family attended the Bnai Zion Reform Jewish Temple in Titusville.
From the description of Weil family photographs 1900-1992 1910-1940 [photographs] (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 664806285
