Orville Livingston Leach

Orville Livingston Leach (March 13, 1859 - December 31, 1921) was an American patent medicine vendor, inventor (with patents for vehicle tires, batteries, and a medicinal electrode), entrepreneur, and property owner (including Emery Park in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island), as well as being a public advocate for certain unusual theories, including the hollow earth hypothesis.

Press Coverage

 * &mdash; copy of a 1907 article, first published in the New York World. The original article is the source of Leach's quote in Emerson's The Smoky God (1908).