Leavitt (surname)
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Leavitt is an Anglo-Norman
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Anglo-Norman
The Anglo-Normans were mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066. A small number of Normans were already settled in England prior to the conquest...
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- Rev. Ashley Day LeavittAshley Day LeavittRev. Dr. Ashley Day Leavitt was a Yale-educated Congregational minister who led the State Street Church in Portland, Maine, and later the Harvard Congregational Church in Brookline, Massachusetts...
(b. 1877), Yale graduate, minister, Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Massachusetts - Benjamin Hanson Leavitt, pioneer rancher born in Clinton, Maine, settler of Leavitt, CaliforniaLeavitt, CaliforniaLeavitt is an unincorporated community in Lassen County, California, United States. It is located alongside the Southern Pacific Railroad east of Susanville, and 7 miles west of Litchfield, at an elevation of ....
- Rev. Bradford LeavittBradford LeavittRev. Bradford Leavitt was a Harvard-educated Unitarian minister named pastor of San Francisco's First Unitarian Church in 1900 – six years before the San Francisco earthquake. Leavitt served the church during and after the disaster, earning a reputation for effective leadership...
(b. 1868), Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard-educated pastor of First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, California, 1900; editorial writer, San Francisco Chronicle; later merchant, San Francisco and Woodside, California - Benson LeavittBenson LeavittBenson Leavitt was a Boston, Massachusetts, businessman, born in New Hampshire, who served as an Alderman of Boston, and later as Acting Mayor after the incumbent became incapacitated and died while in office....
, Acting Mayor of BostonBostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Massachusetts, November 22, 1845, to December 11, 1845, father of Emily Wilder LeavittEmily Wilder LeavittEmily Wilder Leavitt of Boston, Massachusetts, who doubled as an historian and professional genealogist, was one of the first female members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society... - Caroline LeavittCaroline LeavittCaroline Leavitt is an American novelist.She is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels:*"Pictures of You"*Girls In Trouble*Coming Back To Me*Living Other Lives*Into Thin Air*Family*Jealousies*Lifelines...
(b. 1952), Quincy, Massachusetts, American novelist - Charles Wellford LeavittCharles Wellford LeavittCharles Wellford Leavitt was an American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer who designed everything from elaborate gardens on Long Island, New York and New Jersey estates to federal parks in Cuba, hotels in Puerto Rico, plans of towns in Florida, New York and elsewhere...
(1871–1928), eminent landscape architect, urban planner, civil engineer, designed gardens at Long Island and New Jersey estates, as well as parks, country clubs, race courses, stadiums; city planner; cousin of Philadelphia artist Cecilia Beaux - Dana Gibson Leavitt (b. 1926), businessman, former president, Transamerica CorporationTransamerica CorporationTransamerica Corporation is a holding company for various life insurance companies and investment firms doing business primarily in the United States. It was acquired by the Dutch financial services conglomerate AEGON in 1999.-History:...
, founder, Leavitt Management Company, San Francisco; Napa Valley, California; member, Bohemian Club - Daniel LeavittDaniel LeavittDaniel Leavitt was an early American inventor who with his partner Edwin Wesson patented the first revolver after Samuel Colt's, and subsequently manufactured one of the first American revolving pistols. The innovative design was manufactured only briefly before a patent suit by Colt forced the...
(1801–51), American inventor, firearm manufacturer, Wesson & Leavitt, Massachusetts Arms Company, Chicopee, Massachusetts - David LeavittDavid LeavittDavid Leavitt is an American novelist.-Biography:Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University. and a professor at the University of Florida...
(b. 1961), American writer - David Leavitt (banker)David Leavitt (banker)David Leavitt was an early New York City banker and financier. As president of the American Exchange Bank of New York during the Financial Panic of 1837 he represented bondholders of the nascent Illinois and Michigan Canal, allowing completion of the historic canal linking the Midwest with the...
(1791–1879), New York City, Great Barrington, Massachusetts; banker, president of American Exchange Bank of New York, representative of bondholders of Illinois and Michigan Canal; Chicago's Leavitt Street named for him - David O. LeavittDavid O. LeavittDavid Okerlund Leavitt is a criminal justice attorney and businessman from Utah.- Early life :David Leavitt was born to Dixie and Anne Leavitt, the fifth of six brothers. He was raised in Cedar City, Utah and also spent time in Loa on the family farm. He was involved in public life from a young...
, (b. 1963), lawyer, prosecutor, Congressional candidate, international businessman, Salt Lake City, Utah - Dudley LeavittDudley LeavittDudley Leavitt was an early patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon pioneer and an early settler in southern Utah.-Biography:Leavitt was born in Stanstead, Lower Canada....
(1830–1908), Mormon pioneer, later profiled by granddaughter, historian Juanita Brooks - Rev. Dudley Leavitt (minister)Dudley Leavitt (minister)Rev. Dudley Leavitt was a Congregational minister born in New Hampshire, educated at Harvard College, who led a splinter group from the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, during a wave of religious ferment nearly a decade before the Great Awakening. Following Leavitt's death at age 42, his...
(1720–62), minister, Tabernacle Church (formerly First Church), Salem, Massachusetts, Salem's Leavitt Street named for this early minister - Dudley Leavitt (publisher)Dudley Leavitt (publisher)Dudley Leavitt was an American publisher. He was an early graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in his native town of Exeter, New Hampshire, and later moved to Gilmanton where he first edited a newspaper and taught school...
(1772–1851), publisher, Leavitt's Farmers' Almanack and Miscellaneous Yearbook, Meredith, New Hampshire - Edward Chalmers LeavittEdward Chalmers LeavittEdward Chalmers Leavitt , a native of Providence, Rhode Island, was an early New England painter said to be the most renowned still life painter of his day in Providence, although today he is largely forgotten....
(1842–1904), Providence, Rhode Island, prominent New England still life painter, son of Providence pastor Rev. Jonathan Leavitt and Charlotte Esther (Stearns) Leavitt - Elisha LeavittElisha LeavittElisha Leavitt was a Hingham, Massachusetts, Loyalist landowner who owned several islands in Boston Harbor. During the Siege of Boston in 1775, Leavitt encouraged British forces to use one of his islands to gather hay for their horses, triggering a waterborne raid by Continental militiamen and...
(1714–90), owner of Grape Island, Lovells Island, Boston Harbor, infamous Tory in the American Revolutionary War, Hingham, Massachusetts - Emily Wilder LeavittEmily Wilder LeavittEmily Wilder Leavitt of Boston, Massachusetts, who doubled as an historian and professional genealogist, was one of the first female members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society...
(1836–1921), historian, genealogist; one of first female members, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts - Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr.Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr.Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr. , also known as E. D. Leavitt, was a noted American mechanical engineer best known for his steam engine designs....
(1836–1916), mechanical engineer, Cambridge, Massachusetts - Frank McDowell LeavittFrank McDowell LeavittFrank McDowell Leavitt was an American engineer and inventor. Leavitt devised one of the earliest machines for manufacturing tin cans and later invented the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo, the chief torpedo weapon used by United States Navy in World War I...
(1856–1928), engineer, inventor of machine for manufacturing tin cans, Leavitt-Bliss torpedo used by United States Navy, b. Athens, Ohio, d. Scarsdale, New York, son of John McDowell LeavittJohn McDowell LeavittRev. Dr. John McDowell Leavitt, D.D., LL.D. was an early Ohio lawyer, Episcopal clergyman, poet, novelist, editor and professor. Leavitt served as the second President of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and as President of St... - Frank Simmons Leavitt (1891–1953), professional name Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler
- Franklin Leavitt (1824–1898), b. Lancaster, New Hampshire, self-taught artist, made one of the earliest maps of New Hampshire's White Mountains
- George Ayres LeavittGeorge Ayres LeavittGeorge Ayres Leavitt was the son of a Massachusetts bookbinder who founded several of New York's earliest publishing firms. George Leavitt subsequently founded his own publishing company, Leavitt & Allen, but it failed during a financial panic that swept the nation during the American Civil War...
(1822–88), publisher, b. Haverhill, Massachusetts, son of Jonathan Leavitt; founder and proprietor, Leavitt & Allen, publishers, New York City - Capt. George Baker Leavitt, Sr.George Baker Leavitt, Sr.Capt. George Baker Leavitt, Sr. was a Maine-born mariner who captained several whaling vessels out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The steam whalers captained by Leavitt were active in the whaling fishery off the Alaska North Slope, where Leavitt met and married an Inuk woman...
(1860–1925), born Portland, Maine; Captain of New Bedford, Massachusetts-based whaling ships Thrasher, Grampus, Newport, Balaena and steam whaler Narwhal in Alaska; Arctic explorer; Capt. Leavitt married Inuit Nanouk Elguchiaq; Leavitt Island off Alaska's North Slope named for the early whaling captain - Col. Gilman Leavitt (1760–1842), merchant, Portsmouth and Exeter, New Hampshire, often trading with Gilman family relations
- Harold J. Leavitt (1922–2007), Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Emeritus, at Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Harold Walter Leavitt, author, Katahdin Skylines, University of MaineUniversity of MaineThe University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...
Press, 1970 - Hart LeavittHart LeavittHart Leavitt was a Massachusetts merchant, landowner, legislator and prominent abolitionist. Leavitt was the brother of Roger Hooker Leavitt, with whom he operated an Underground Railroad station in Charlemont, Massachusetts, where the two brothers, aided by a third sibling in New York, the...
(1808–81), American abolitionist, operator of Underground Railroad station, Charlemont, Massachusetts - Hart Day LeavittHart Day LeavittHart Day Leavitt was a longtime English teacher at Phillips Andover Academy, amateur jazz musician, the author of a bestselling book on grammar and writing, and the professor of many notable Andover graduates, including Jack Lemmon, H. G. Bissinger and President George H. W...
(1909–2008), author, Yale University graduate, longtime English teacher, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, son of Rev. Ashley Day Leavitt - Hazen Leavitt, New Hampshire native, first settler of Leavitt Township, MichiganLeavitt Township, MichiganLeavitt Township is a civil township of Oceana County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 845 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water.-Demographics:As of the census of...
, 1864 - Henrietta Swan LeavittHenrietta Swan LeavittHenrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, Leavitt went to work in 1893 at the Harvard College Observatory in a menial capacity as a "computer", assigned to count images on photographic plates...
(1868–1921), American astronomer, Cambridge, Massachusetts - Hiram LeavittHiram LeavittHiram Leavitt was an early settler, innkeeper, and judge in Mono County, California, in the eastern Sierra Nevada. Leavitt left his mark in the area and is the namesake of features such as Leavitt Peak, Leavitt Meadow, Leavitt Creek and Leavitt Lake.-History:Hiram Lewis Leavitt was born in...
(1824–1901), early settler, innkeeper, judge, Mono County, California, namesake of Leavitt Peak, Leavitt Meadow and Leavitt Lake, eastern Sierra Nevada - Humphrey H. LeavittHumphrey H. LeavittHumphrey Howe Leavitt was an Ohio attorney and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio and as a United States District Court judge.- History :...
(1796–1873), American congressman, U.S. District Court Judge, Ohio, b. Suffield, Connecticut - James Madison Leavitt (1826–1903), b. Turner, Maine; later merchant, New York City; donated $10,000 to Turner to build first high school, 1895, subsequently named The Leavitt Institute, today headquarters for Turner's nonprofit organizations
- Jim LeavittJim LeavittJim Leavitt is a former American football player and current linebackers coach for the San Francisco 49ers. He served at the head coach at the University of South Florida from the football program's inception in 1997 until 2009, compiling a record of 95–57.-Early years:Leavitt grew up in St...
, University of South Florida football coach - John LeavittJohn LeavittDeacon John Leavitt was a tailor, public officeholder, and founding deacon of Old Ship Church in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, the only remaining 17th-century Puritan meeting house in America and the oldest church in continuous ecclesiastical use in the United States...
(1608–91), tailor, founding deacon, Old Ship Church, Hingham, Massachusetts, sergeant and Massachusetts selectman, Hingham's Leavitt Street named for him, ancestor of disparate Americans including Sandra Day O'Connor, Richard Morris Hunt and Stephen King - John Leavitt (1729–1798), Suffield, Connecticut, son of Lieut. Joshua Leavitt, married Abiah Kent; Private, Suffield Militia, at Lexington Alarm, New Haven Alarm; member, Connecticut General Assembly, 1775
- John Leavitt (Ohio settler)John Leavitt (Ohio settler)Capt. John Wheeler Leavitt , born in Suffield, Connecticut, was an early settler of Ohio's Western Reserve lands, where members of his family had bought large tracts from the state of Connecticut, and where Capt. Leavitt became an early innkeeper, politician and landowner in Warren, Trumbull...
(1755–1815), early Ohio settler in the Western Reserve from Connecticut, Warren, Ohio, Leavittsburg, Ohio - John Faunce LeavittJohn Faunce LeavittJohn Faunce Leavitt was a well-known shipbuilder, writer on maritime subjects, painter of marine canvases, and curator of Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut....
(1905–74), sailor, boatbuilder, marine artist, maritime writer, Wake of the Coasters, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut - John Hooker LeavittJohn Hooker LeavittJohn Hooker Leavitt was an early banker and Iowa state senator who was born at Heath, Massachusetts, but who later moved westward to Iowa in search of fortune....
(1831–1906), banker, state senator, b. Heath, Massachusetts, founder, Leavitt and Johnson National Bank, Waterloo, Iowa - John Howland Leavitt (1918–2009), Flight Lieutenant, No. 617 Squadron RAF; subsequently Office of Strategic ServicesOffice of Strategic ServicesThe Office of Strategic Services was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency, and it was a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency...
, Central Intelligence AgencyCentral Intelligence AgencyThe Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers... - John McDowell LeavittJohn McDowell LeavittRev. Dr. John McDowell Leavitt, D.D., LL.D. was an early Ohio lawyer, Episcopal clergyman, poet, novelist, editor and professor. Leavitt served as the second President of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and as President of St...
(1824–1909), LL.D., Episcopal clergyman, author, professor, president, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania - John Wheeler LeavittJohn Wheeler LeavittMy grandparents were both of Puritan New England stock, English entirely. Their ancestors had been early settlers in the northern and western part of Connecticut...
(1790–1870), prominent New York City businessman, founder of J. W. & R. Leavitt Company, eventually declared insolvent, b. Washington, Connecticut, brother of David Leavitt (banker), grandfather of American painter Cecilia Beaux - John Leavitt (b. 1956), composer, conductor, teacher, church musician from Wichita, Kansas
- Rev. Jonathan Leavitt (minister)Jonathan Leavitt (minister)Rev. Jonathan Leavitt was an early New England Congregational minister, born in Connecticut, and subsequently the pastor of churches in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, both of which dismissed him from his posts. Several of Rev...
(1731–1802), born Suffield, Connecticut, graduate, Yale College, Congregational minister, Walpole, New Hampshire, first minister, Charlemont, Massachusetts, married Sarah Hooker, great-granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker; sister Jemima Leavitt mother of Chief Justice of the United States Oliver Ellsworth - Jonathan LeavittJonathan LeavittJonathan Leavitt was a prominent Greenfield, Massachusetts attorney, judge, state senator and businessman for whom the architect Asher Benjamin designed the Leavitt House, now the Leavitt-Hovey House on Main Street, in 1797....
(1764–1830), judge, state senator, banker, Greenfield, Massachusetts - Jonathan Leavitt (publisher)Jonathan Leavitt (publisher)Jonathan Leavitt was a bookbinder who later co-founded the New York City publishing firm of Leavitt & Trow, one of the nation's first publishing houses. Leavitt was also co-founder of another early New York publishing house with his brother-in-law Daniel Appleton...
(ca.1797–1851), Andover, Massachusetts, founder, publisher, Leavitt & Trow, New York City, died 1851 - Rev. Jonathan Leavitt (1800–77), pastor, 25 years, Richmond Street Church Providence, Rhode Island, trustee, Amherst College
- Joseph LeavittJoseph LeavittPrivate Joseph Leavitt was an early settler of Maine, who moved to what was then the frontier of Massachusetts after serving three months in the Continental Army at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, and then declaring that he was unable to bear arms in conflict...
(b. 1754) Pembroke, Massachusetts, Private, Continental Army, laid down his weapon after three months due to pacifist sympathies, later known as 'Quaker Joe'; first settler of Turner, Maine, built first house - Lieut. Joshua Leavitt (1687–1732), born Hingham, Massachusetts, early settler Suffield, Connecticut, married Hannah Devotion, daughter of John Devotion of Suffield
- Dr. Joshua Leavitt, early settler of Limerick, Maine, for whom Leavitt Brook is named
- Rev. Joshua LeavittJoshua LeavittRev. Joshua Leavitt was an American Congregationalist minister and former lawyer who became a prominent writer, editor and publisher of abolitionist literature. He was also a spokesman for the Liberty Party and a prominent campaigner for cheap postage...
(1794–1873), abolitionist, editor of The Emancipator, born Heath, Massachusetts - Dr. Josiah LeavittJosiah LeavittDr. Josiah Leavitt was an early Massachusetts physician and inventor. Possessed of an early love for mechanical movements and for music, Dr...
(1744–1804), physician, Hingham, Massachusetts, inventor, built clock that hung in window of Old Ship Church; later removed to Boston where he became prominent maker and repairer of organs - Judith Walzer LeavittJudith Walzer LeavittJudith Walzer Leavitt is an American historian.She was the Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier Professor of History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her book subjects have included a study of Mary Mallon, a history of childbirth in America,...
(b. 1940), University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of history of medicine - L. Brooks LeavittL. Brooks LeavittL. Brooks Leavitt was an investment banker and antiquarian book collector who served as an overseer of Bowdoin College, to whose library he donated part of his collection of rare books and manuscripts...
(1878–1941), investment banker, antiquarian book collector, overseer of Bowdoin College, New York City and Wilton, Maine - Laurence G. LeavittLaurence G. LeavittLaurence Gillelan Leavitt was the longtime headmaster of Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont, United States, where he succeeded in steering the preparatory school from dire financial straits to financial health by strengthening its curriculum and building its extracurricular...
(1903–2000), longtime headmaster, Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vermont - Lewis LeavittLewis LeavittLewis A. Leavitt is Medical Director of the Waisman Center on Human Development at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine...
, medical director, University of Wisconsin–Madison; professor of pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine - Mary Greenleaf Clement LeavittMary Greenleaf Clement LeavittMary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt was a divorced Boston schoolteacher who became the first round-the-world missionary for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union , of which she was a founding member...
(1830–1912), worldwide temperance crusader, Woman's Christian Temperance Movement, Boston - Michael O. Leavitt (b. 1951), American politician, former Governor of Utah, currently Cabinet Secretary, Health and Human Services
- Michael Leavitt (artist)Michael Leavitt (artist)Mike Leavitt is a visual artist based in Seattle, WA U.S.A., described as "the best caricature sculptor in the city" . The "über-allround-cool-creator" is most widely known for his "Art Army" series of hand-made action figures depicting visual artists, musicians, and entertainers...
(b. 1977), American sculptor, painter and educator - Mick LeavittMick LeavittMick Leavitt , also known as Michael Leavitt, is a Tony Award-winning producer of theatrical productions, including Thoroughly Modern Millie starring Sutton Foster, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Gary Sinise, and Death of a Salesman starring Brian Dennehy...
(b. 1959), Broadway producer - Moses LeavittMoses LeavittMoses Leavitt was an early settler of Exeter, New Hampshire, where he worked as a surveyor. Later he became a large landowner, and served as selectman, and as a Deputy and later Moderator of the New Hampshire General Court from Exeter...
(1650–1730), surveyor, selectman, Deputy, Moderator of the General Court, Exeter, New Hampshire - Myron E. LeavittMyron E. LeavittMyron E. Leavitt was an American politician. He was the Lieutenant Governor of Nevada from 1979 to 1983. He was a native of Las Vegas, Nevada, and served in many political positions, including the Clark County Commission from 1971 to 1974, and the Las Vegas City Council from 1975 to 1978...
(1930–2004), former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada and Nevada Supreme Court Justice - Oliver Leavitt, member of Inupiaq Eskimo tribe, Barrow, Alaska; whaling captain; Chairman, Board of Directors of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation; descendant of George B. Leavitt Sr., Yankee whaling ship captain and Arctic explorer
- R. Scot Leavitt, president, Harvard Crimson; correspondent, Hong Kong bureau chief, senior editor, LIFE magazine; longtime senior editor, Sports Illustrated magazine; Pound Ridge, New York
- Ralph LeavittRalph LeavittRalph J. Leavitt was an early New York City automobile dealer charged with fraud who successfully avoided arrest over a period of months, both in New York City and in his native York Harbor, Maine, where he fled, and where he tied his speedboat to a buoy, threatening officers with a pistol...
(b. 1877), president, Leavitt Motor Car Exchange, New York City, later fugitive from justice, York Harbor, Maine - Ralph W. 'Bud' Leavitt Jr.Ralph W. 'Bud' Leavitt Jr.Ralph W. 'Bud' Leavitt Jr. was a Maine newspaperman who was executive sports editor of The Bangor Daily News, and a longtime outdoor columnist recognized statewide. In addition to his writing, Leavitt hosted one of Maine's earliest television shows, which was devoted to fishing, hunting and the...
(1917–94), executive sports editor, The Bangor Daily News, longtime outdoor columnist, Bangor, Maine - Raphy Leavitt (b. 1948), Puerto Rican composer
- Robert LeavittRobert LeavittRobert Grandison "Bob" Leavitt was an American athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1906 Summer Olympics....
(1883–1954), American Olympic athlete - Robert Greenleaf LeavittRobert Greenleaf LeavittDr. Robert Greenleaf Leavitt , born at Parsonsfield, Maine, was an early American Harvard-educated botanist and widely-published author in the field of botany, as well as an early college and high school educator in the natural sciences. Leavitt also worked for nine years as a botanical researcher...
(1865–1942), b. Parsonsfield, Maine, Harvard-educated botanist, teacher, Ames Botanical Laboratory, Massachusetts; owner, Blazo-Leavitt House, Parsonsfield, Maine - Robert Keith LeavittRobert Keith LeavittRobert Keith Leavitt was a Harvard-educated New York City advertising copywriter who turned to non-fiction writing. He was the author of many books, including a history of Webster's Dictionary and "The Chip on Grandma's Shoulder" 'Bob' Leavitt was also the longtime historian of the original Baker...
(1895–1967), Harvard-educated son of Robert Greenleaf Leavitt; author, Noah's Ark, New England Yankees, and the Endless Quest: A Short History of the Original Webster Dictionaries, 1947; founding historian, Baker Street IrregularsBaker Street IrregularsThe Baker Street Irregulars are any of several different groups, all named after the original, from various Sherlock Holmes stories in which they are a gang of young street children whom Holmes often employs to aid his cases.- Original :... - Col. Roger Hooker LeavittRoger Hooker LeavittCol. Roger Hooker Leavitt was a prominent landowner, early industrialist and Massachusetts politician who with other family members was an ardent abolitionist, using his home in Charlemont, Massachusetts as an Underground Railroad station for slaves escaped from the South...
(1805–85), American abolitionist, operator of Underground Railroad station, Charlemont, Massachusetts - Ron LeavittRon LeavittRon Leavitt was the co-creator of the American television show Married... with Children...
(1947–2008), writer for Married... with Children - Dr. Roswell Leavitt (1775–1820), m. Dorothy (Ashley) Leavitt, longtime physician, Cornish, New Hampshire
- Roswell Leavitt (1843–1937), Representative, Maine Legislature, 1868; Michigan State Senator, (1889–1890), Michigan Twenty-ninth District; b. Turner, Maine; teacher, lawyer, prosecutor, Antrim County, Michigan; Civil War veteran, 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- Russell Leavitt, Harvard College class of 1917, vice president and partner, Moody's Investors Service, 1931, Greenwich, Connecticut
- Lieut. Samuel LeavittSamuel LeavittLieut. Samuel Leavitt was an early colonial settler of Exeter, New Hampshire, one of the four original towns in the colony of New Hampshire, where Leavitt later served as a delegate to the General Court as well as Lieutenant in the New Hampshire Militia, and subsequently as member of the New...
(1641–1707), early settler, deputy, member of New Hampshire House of Representatives, Exeter, New Hampshire - Capt. Samuel Leavitt, a founder and selectman, Deerfield, New Hampshire, Leavitts Hill named for the family
- Scott LeavittScott LeavittScott Leavitt was a U.S. Representative from Montana. He served as chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs.-Early life:...
(1879–1966), U.S. Forest Service ranger, Spanish-American War veteran, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana - Capt. Sherwood Leavitt, Saratoga County, New York, New York State Militia, Light Infantry, 32nd Regiment, 1811–12
- Sturgis Elleno LeavittSturgis Elleno LeavittSturgis Elleno Leavitt was the Kenan Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina, the author of many books on Spanish language and literature, the president of several Spanish language teaching organizations, an adviser to the U.S...
(1888–1976), graduate, Bowdoin College, Harvard, author, Professor of Spanish, University of North Carolina - Thaddeus LeavittThaddeus LeavittThaddeus Leavitt was a Suffield, Connecticut, merchant who invented an early cotton gin, as well as joining with seven other Connecticut men to purchase most of the three-million-plus acres of the Western Reserve lands in Ohio from the government of Connecticut, land on which some of his family...
(1750–1826), merchant, inventor, patentee of Western Reserve lands in Ohio, Suffield, Connecticut - Thomas LeavittThomas LeavittThomas Leavitt was an early president of the Bank of New Brunswick in his native Saint John, New Brunswick. Leavitt was also a diplomat, politician and powerful Canadian businessman with interests in the shipping industry....
(1795–1850), president of Bank of New Brunswick, businessman, diplomat, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada - Thomas Leavitt (inventor)Thomas Leavitt (inventor)Thomas Leavitt patented, along with his brother Martin Leavitt, the first machine in the U.S. that made machine-cancelled postal letters practicable, enabling the United States Post Office to increase the volume of mail it handled, quickening the pace of delivery and allowing customers to more...
(1827–99), inventor of first U.S. postmarking machines, 1875, Boston, Massachusetts - Thomas Leavitt (settler)Thomas Leavitt (settler)Thomas Leavitt was an English Puritan who was one of the earliest permanent settlers of the Province of New Hampshire. A farmer, Leavitt apparently followed Rev. John Wheelwright to his settlement of Exeter, New Hampshire. Later Leavitt moved on to Hampton...
(ca. 1615–96), farmer, early English settler of Hampton, New Hampshire - Thomas Dudley Leavitt (1857–1933), early Mormon settler of Bunkerville, Nevada, Utopian community based on United Order principles of cooperative labor and communal property management; Thomas Leavitt House listed on the National Register of Historic Places
- Thomas Hooker Leavitt (1824–1906), Boston, Massachusetts, author and publisher, Facts About Peat as an Article of Fuel, co-proprietor, Leavitt & Hunnewell, Boston, Massachusetts
- Thomas Rowell LeavittThomas Rowell LeavittThomas Rowell "Tom" Leavitt was an early Mormon settler of Leavitt, Alberta, Canada, which the former Utah sheriff and marshal founded at age 53 after an arduous journey in covered wagons, fleeing a crackdown on polygamy that sent fellow Mormons across the border to Mexico and Canada.Leavitt was...
(1834–91), sheriff, Wellsville, Utah, polygamist Mormon settler of Alberta, Canada, founder, Leavitt, Alberta - Thomas W. Leavitt, director, Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts
- Capt. William Leavitt, founder, 1854, Chase Leavitt & Company, steamship agency, Portland, Maine
- William Homer LeavittWilliam Homer LeavittWilliam Homer Leavitt was an American portrait painter who married the daughter of politician William Jennings Bryan. For a time, Leavitt was a sought-after society portraitist, until he departed for Paris to pursue his art. He was subsequently divorced by his wife, and his two children were...
, artist, portrait painter, Newport, Rhode Island, married Ruth Bryan, eldest daughter of William Jennings Bryan; seriously injured when thrown from horse belonging to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, whom Leavitt had just painted, Sept. 1901; divorced by Ruth Bryan, and children adopted by grandfather William Jennings Bryan
Leavitt descendants
- Henry Leavitt EllsworthHenry Leavitt EllsworthHenry Leavitt Ellsworth was a Yale-educated attorney who became the first Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, where he encouraged innovation by inventors Samuel F.B. Morse and Samuel Colt...
(1791–1858), Mayor of Hartford, Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, father of the United States Department of Agriculture, President Aetna Insurance Company, benefactor Yale College, son of Founding Father Oliver Ellsworth - Leavitt HuntLeavitt HuntCol. Leavitt Hunt was a Harvard-educated attorney and photography pioneer who was one of the first people to photograph the Middle East...
(1831–1907), Harvard-educated attorney, pioneering photographer, brother of architect Richard Morris Hunt and painter William Morris Hunt, Weathersfield, Vermont and New York City - Roswell GilpatricRoswell GilpatricRoswell Leavitt Gilpatric was a prominent New York City corporate attorney and government official who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1961–64, when he played a pivotal role in the high-stake strategies of the Cuban Missile Crisis, advising President John F...
(middle name Leavitt) (1906–96), lawyer and government official, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, advised President John F. Kennedy during Cuban Missile Crisis, later Chairman, Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation - Dudley Leavitt PickmanDudley Leavitt PickmanDudley Leavitt Pickman was a Salem, Massachusetts, merchant who built one of the great Salem trading firms during the seaport's ascendancy as a trading power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Pickman was a partner in the firm Devereux, Pickman & Silsbee and a state senator...
(1779–1846), Salem, Massachusetts, merchant; partner, Devereux, Pickman & Silsbee; state legislator; wealthiest Salem merchant of his day - Hon. Leavitt Thaxter (1788–1863), Edgartown, Massachusetts, educator, Massachusetts State Senator; Thaxter Academy
- John L. StevensJohn L. StevensJohn Leavitt Stevens was the United States Department of State Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 when he was accused of conspiring to overthrow Queen Liliuokalani in association with the Committee of Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston and Sanford B...
(middle name Leavitt) (1820–1895), United States Department of State Minister to the Kingdom of Hawai'i, accused of conspiring to overthrow Queen Lili'uokalani - Carl Leavitt HubbsCarl Leavitt Hubbs-Youth:He was born in Williams, Arizona. He was the son of Charles Leavitt and Elizabeth Hubbs. His father had a wide variety of jobs . The family moved several times before settling in San Diego where he got his first taste of natural history...
(1894–1979), American ichthyologist, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, California - Leavitt Howe (1836-1904), Princeton, New Jersey, founder with brother Edward Howe and two others of Bay Head Land Company, Bay Head, New Jersey, 1879
Further reading
- Noyes, Emily Leavitt. (1941). Leavitt: The descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son Moses
- Noyes, Emily Leavitt. (1948). Leavitt: The descendants of John, the Immigrant Through His Son Israel
- Noyes, Emily Leavitt. (1949). Leavitt: The descendants of John, The Immigrant Through His Son Josiah
- Noyes, Emily Leavitt. (1956). Leavitt: The descendants of John, The Immigrant Through His Son Samuel
- Noyes, Emily Leavitt, Berndt, Julia Bumpus (1982). Leavitt: The descendants of John, The Immigrant Through His Son Nehemiah
- Noyes, Emily Leavitt. (1953). Leavitt: Descendants of Thomas Leavitt, the Immigrant (1616-1696), and Isabella Bland
- Leavitt, Brooks Russell. (2002). Leavitt and allied families: For the descendants of V. Russell Leavitt (1891–1946) and Harriet Edna Rice Leavitt (1892–1970), privately printed