[1] In 1893 he became vice president of the United States Leather Company.

[1] He was born on February 18, 1855, in Shokan, New York, to Rebecca Krom (?-1905) and Harvey Smith Ladew I (?-1888).

[1] Ladew was married January 26, 1886, to Louise Berry Wall, the sister of the famous dandy Evander Berry Wall.

[6][7] Elise Ladew was painted in November 1911 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury, a friend of her uncle Evander Berry Wall, in an oval portrait, now in a private collection in Ketchum, Idaho.

Edward R. Ladew died on August 30, 1905, at Glen Cove, Long Island of cirrhosis at age 50.