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bor, Xew York. He graduated at Yale Col- lege and settled at Danville, Vermont, about 1784. residing there many years. He mar- ried (first) July I, 1761. Catherine, widow of Culi)eper Frisby, and daughter of John Conkling. of Suffolk county, Xew York, lie married (second) Eunice Sperry. Dr. IVederick Leavenworth, son of Colonel Jesse and Catherine (Conkling-Frisby) Leavenworth, was born September 4, 1766, in W'aterbury, where he engaged in the practice of medicine, and also in manufac- turing, and died May 17, 1840. He mar- ried. May 19, 1796, Fanny, daughter of Ab- ner and Lydia (Bunnell) Johnson, of Wat- erbury, born February 28, 1766, died May 14, 1852. Abner Johnson Leavenworth, sec- ond son of Dr. Frederick and Fanny (John- son) Leavenworth, was born July 12, 1803, in W'aterbury, and died February 12, iS6g, in Petersburg, \"irginia. He graduated at Amherst College in 1825, studied theology at Andover Seminary, and was licensed to preach, April 22, 1828. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Bris- tol, Connecticut, December 16, 1829, and continued two years in that charge, when he removed to Charlotte, North Carolina, and became pastor of the Presbyterian church there. He also established a young ladies' school, of which he was principal, and was very active in ecclesiastical affairs in the state. By lectures, newspaper articles and the distribution of tracts, he endeavored to stimulate the interest of the people of that state in public education. In 1838 he re- moved to W'arrinton, Virginia, where he es- tablished a school. One year later he went to Petersburg to take charge of the new High Street Church, leaving his school at W'arrinton in charge of his wife. For four years he was pastor of the High Street Church, and also established a school at Petersburg, which attained a very great success, previous to the civil war. That struggle interfered with the school, but it was resumed, and again took high place among the educational institutions of the state. Mr. Leavenworth was engaged here, as in North Carolina, in educational work, and at the time of his death was correspond- ing secretary of the Virginia Educational Association, in whose organization he was an active jjarticipntor. He married. June 14, 1831. h'lizabeth Manning Pcabody. of Salem. Massachusetts, born March 30. 1809, died

June 25, 1841. daughter of John and Eliza- beth (Manning) Peabody. She was of great assistance to him in his school work, and left an impress upon educational matters of the state. Children : Frederick P., born June 13, 1833, was a railroad engineer, and resided at Shreveport, Louisiana ; Helen Elizabeth, above mentioned as the wife of John (2) McGill ; Abner Augustus and Mary Frances, died in infancy. The children of John (2) McGill were: John and Frederick, died during the civil war ; Helen Leslie, wife of Alexander Hamilton, of Petersburg; Fanny Page, Mrs. F. R. Lassiter, died Jan- uary I, 1906; William L., of Petersburg, married Otelia Mahone ; Dora Stuart, wife of Thomas B. Scott, of Richmond ; ^lary Peabody. Mrs. Thomas A. Johnson, of Rochester. New York; Elisha Leavenworth, of further mention ; Grace Leavenworth, wife of Iredell Jones, of Columbia, South Carolina.

(HI) Dr. Elisha Leavenworth McGill, son of John (2) and Helen Elizabeth (Leav- enworth) McGill, was born May 12, 1875, in Petersburg, and was educated in the cele- brated McCabe's School of that city, and the \"irginia Military Institute, from which he graduated in 1897. Following this he en- tered the medical department of Columbia University, New York, from which he was graduated in 1901. After a valuable ex- perience in the City Hospital on Black- well's Island, New York, he was for some time associated with the Children's Hospi- tal on Randolph Island. In 1904 he estab- lished a practice in his native city, where he has gained success and popularity. His standing in the profession is indicated by his membership in numerous medical asso- ciations, including the Petersburg IMedical Faculty, the oldest medical society in Vir- ginia, the Southside Medical Society, the Medical Society of Virginia, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Kappa Alpha college fraternity. He attends the Presbyterian church of Peters- burg.

Dr. McGill married, October 2, 1907. at Berryville, \'irginia. Helen McGill Page, a native of that place, daughter of Robert Powell and Martha (Hardee) Page. Robert Powell Page was throughout his life a phy- sician at Berryville, was a member of Ma- hone's brigade during the civil war, and died