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 LEAVITT

LEAVITT

1855-57 ; a graduate in theology, Bexley Hall, Ken- yon college, Gambler, Ohio, and was made a dea- con and presbyter in the Protestant Episcopal church. He was professor in Kenyon ; rector of St. James's church, Zanesville, Ohio ; became edi- tor of the Amevican Quarterly Church Bevieiv in 1867 ; founded and edited the International Review; was president of Lehigh university, 1875-80 ; of St. John's college, Annapolis, Md., 1880-84, and became professor of ecclesiastical polity, history and Christian evidences in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1884. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Ohio university in 1874, and that of LL.D. from St. John's col- lege in 1889. He is the author of : Psychology in Itself and its Relations to Belief ; Hymns to Our King (1872) ; Visio7is of Solyma and Other Poems (1895); The Christian Democracy, a History of its Suppression and Revival (1896); Reasons for Faith in Christianity, ivith Answers to Hyper- criticism (1900); My Creed and 3Iy Confession, the Legacy of an Octogenarian (1901).

LEAVITT, Joshua, reformer, was born in Heath, Mass. , Sept. 8, 1794 : son of Roger and Cliloe (Maxwell) Leavitt, and grandson of the Rev. Jonathan Leavitt of Charlemont, Mass., a gradu- ate of Yale, 1758, died 1802. Joshua Leavitt was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1814, A.M., 1817; was admitted to the bar in Northampton, Mass., in 1819, and practised law at Putney, Vt., 1819-23. He was graduated at Yale Divinity school in 1825, and was ordained to the Congregational ministry Feb. 23, 1825. He was pastor at Strat- ford, Conn., 1825-28, and served as agent of the American Temperance society for four months. He removed to New York city in 1828, as secre- tary of the American Seamen's Friend society ; edited the Sailor's Magazi^ie, 1828-Sl ; owned and edited the Evangelist in New York city, 1831-37, making it a liberal temperance and anti-slavery organ. He edited the Emancipator in New^ York and Boston, 1837-47 ; the Chronicle, the first daily anti-slavery paper, in 1848 ; was oflBce editor of the Independent in New York city, 1848-64, and a member of its staff until his death. He formed societies and established chapels in various for- eign and domestic ports in connection with the Seamen's Friend society, and was the first secre- tary of the American Temperance society. He was a delegate to the convention at Albany, N.Y., that gave birth to the Liberal party in 1840, and in that year established The Ballot Box, in which he supported James G. Birney for President of the United States. He founded the Cheap Post- age society in Boston, Mass., in 1847, and resided in Washington, D.C., 1C48-49, where he labored for the adoption of the two-cent postage rate. It is claimed tliat lie had an influence, through his

correspondence with Richard Cobden setting forth the capacity of the United States for rais- ing wheat, in securing the repeal of the English corn laws, and in 1809 he received a gold medal from the Cobden club of England for his article advocating free trade. He was a member of the Colonization society ; founded the New York Anti-slavery society in 1833 ; was a member of its executive committee in 1835, and continued a member of the National Anti-slavery society, into which the former was merged. He was married to Sarah, daughter of tlie Rev. Solomon Williams of Northampton, Mass. He received the degree of D.D. from Wabash college in 1854. He is the author of : Easy Lessons in Read- ing (1823); The Christian Lyre (1831), and a series of readers (1847). He died in Brooklyn, N. Y. Jan. 16, 1873.

LEAVITT, Julius Adelbert, educator, was born in Gouverneur, N.Y., March 4, 1852 ; son of Halsey Carroll and Romanda (Leach) Leavitt, and grandson of Benjamin and Cynthia (Ashley) Leav- itt. He was graduated from Brown university in 1875, and studied at Newton Theological institu- tion, 1875-76 ; was ordained to the Baptist min- istry at Grafton, Vt., June 24, 1876 ; was pastor of churches at Grafton, Vt., 1876-77; Essex, Conn., 1877-80 ; Beloit, Kan., 1880-82, and Leav- enworth, Kan., 1882-84; was state Sunday- school missionary for Illinois, 1885-90, and was elected president of Ewing college in 1890. He was married. May 30, 1876, to Isabelle I. Brown, of Providence, R.I., and secondly, on Dec. 29,. 1881, to Lillie H. Lemen, of Collingsville, 111. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by La Grange college, Mo., in 1896. He was editor of the Baptist Scintillations, and became associate editor of the Baptist News in 1896.

LEAVITT, flary Clement, temperance mis- sionary, was born in Hopkinton, N.H., Sept. 22, 1830 ; daughter of the Rev. Joshua and Eliza (Harvey) Clement, and a descendant of that Robert Clement, of Warwickshire, England, who was one of the founders of Haverhill, Mass., 1640. She was graduated at the State Normal school. West Newton, Mass ; taught school in Boston, and opened a school for young children. She assisted the evangelist, Dwight L. Moody, at the noon meetings during his first visit to Boston, and took an active part in the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of which she was an early member. Slie was president of the Boston union, a member of tlie Massachusetts state executive committee and a student of the various phases of intemperance. She became a national lecturer for the W.C.T.U. in 1880, super- intended work on the Pacific coast, 1883-84, and made a tour around the world, 1884-91, in which her expenses were met by voluntary contribu-