About Orville Livingston Leach (1859-1921), inventor, successful patent medicine purveyor, Rhode Island pleasure park owner, and a truly cosmic loon who believed the earth was hollow and the Millennium was near. In his dotage he had a cranky book to prepare, and he sounds like a prime candidate to have been a Lovecraft revision client c.1919-1921.He was the youngest son of Elihu Leach and Sarah Lovisa Leach, and was born at Raynham, Mass. In 1886 he married Theresa Walsh but had no children. In the 1896 Providence Directory he was a seller of patent medicines via a remedy company. He was living at Prairie Avenue, Providence about a mile south of College Hill. He seems to have moved around a lot around the turn of the century, but he is in one genealogy book with a note that he kept the Emory House in Providence.This house either took or gave the name to the Order of Emorians, which he founded. This order was originally the Evergreens, a Life & Longevity League, and was probably founded in the early or mid 1890s to promote his patent remedies and health regimens? He later became the Secretary of the Order of Emorians, Providence Lodge. There was also an English branch of the Emorians, possibly a franchise for his patent medicines.