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 LEVERETT

LE VERT

Figures (I87(i); Tfie Steam Engine Indicator and its Use (1890); The Steatn Engine and the Indi- cator, Their Origin and Progressive Development (1890); Safety Fa/res (1892); The Practical Man- agement of Engines and Boilers (1897); a book for engineers and firemen in the form of questions and answers (in MS., 1901), and numerous scien- tific papers read before the Franklin Institute, 1873-88.

LEVERETT, John, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 25, 1662; son of Hudson and Sarah (Peyton) Leverett; grandson of Gov. Sir John and Hannah (Hudson) Leverett and of Capt. Bezaleel and Mary (Greenough) Peyton,

and a descendant of Thomas

Levei'ett, of Lincohishire,

"^^^ England, who settled in Bos-

^^ ton, Mass., in 1633. John Lev-

jz-'erett was prepared for college

^t^JJ at the Boston Latin school and

was graduated at Harvard, A.

B. 1680, A.M. 1683, S.T.B. 16- ■92. He was a tutor in Harvard, 1685-97, and a fel- low of Harvard, 1685-1700. He preached occasion- ally for several yeai-s, but abandoned the ministry for law, and practised in Boston, Mass. He repre- sented Cambridge in the Massachusetts legisla- ture, 1698-1701; was speaker of the house of rep- resentatives in 1700; a member of the governor's council, 1701: judge of the superior court in September, 1702, and judge of the probate court by appointment from Governor Dudley, 1702-07. He was one of the commissioners from Massa- chusetts to visit and strengthen the alliance with the Five Nations Indians, 1704, and a commis- sioner to superintend and direct the army returned from an unsuccessful expedition against Port Roy- al, N.S., 1707. He served as president of Harvard college from Jan. 14, 1708, until his death in 1724. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of London, March 11, 1713. He was married, Nov. 25, 1697, to Margaret, daughter of President John and Elizabeth (Denison) Rogers, and the widow of Capt. Thomas Berry, of Boston and Ipswich; and secondly in 1772 to Sarah, daughter of Rich- ard Crisp and widow of "William Harris. He left two manuscript volumes relating to the col- lege. He died in Cambridge, Mass.. May 3, 1724. LEVERING, Joshua, presidential candidate, was born in Baltimore, Md., Sept. 12, 1845; son son of Eugene and Ann (Walker) Levering; grandson of Peter and Hannah (Wilson) Lever- ing and of Joshua and Mary E. Walker, and a descendant of Wigard and Magdaline (Boker) Levering, who came from Germany to Rox- borough, Philadelphia county. Pa., in 1685. He entered his father's importing house, and in 1866, with his brothers William T. and Eugene, Jr., was admitted to the firm, as was his brother

Leonidas in 1870, on the death of the father. He served as president of the board of trustees of the Southern Baptist Theological seminar}', Louisville, Ky.; vice-president of the Amei-ican Baptist Publication society; a member of the international committee of the Y.M.C.A., and president of the Baltimore branch, 1884-1900. He left the Democratic party in 1884, became a Prohibitionist, and was candidate for state comptroller, 1891, and for President of the United States in 1896, receiving his nomination, with Hale Johnson of Illinois for vice-president, at Pittsburg, Pa., May 27, 1896, the ticket receiving 132,007 popular votes.

LEVERMORE, Charles Herbert, educator, was born in Mansfield, Conn., Oct. 15, 1856; son of the Rev. Aaron Russell and Mary Gay (Skin- ner) Livermore; grandson of Daniel and Katha- rine (Hoj-t) Livermore, and of the Rev. Dr. Newton and Ursula (Wolcott) Skinner, and a descendant of John Livermore, who camo to America in 1634 and settled in Watertown, Mass. He was graduated from Yale, A. B., 1879; was principal of Guilford institute. Conn., 1879-83; a graduate student of Johns Hopkins university, 1883-86; university fellow in history, 1884-85; instructor in history and German at Hopkins grammar school. New Haven, Conn., 1885-86; instructor in history at the University of Cali- fornia, 1886-88; professor of history at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., 1888-93; principal of Adelphi academy, Brook- lyn, N.Y., 1893-96, and was elected president of Adelphi college in 1896. He was one of the original members of the American Historical association. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by Johns Hopkins university in 1886. He is the author of: The Republic of New Haven, a History of Municipal Evolution (published by the Johns Hopkins university, 1886. for whioli he received the John Marshall prize of the uni- versity); Syllabus of Lectures ujjon Political His- tory Since 1815, (in collaboration with D. R. Dewey, 1893); The Academy Song Book (1895); Tlie Abridged Academy Song Book (1898).

LE VERT, Octavia (Walton), author, was born at Bellevue, near Augusta, Ga., in 1810: daughter of George and Sail}' 3Iinge (Walker) Walton and granddaughter of George Walton, the signer (q.v.). Her father removed to Pensacola in 1821; was secretary to John H. Eaton, territorial gov- ernor, and when Eaton became U.S. minister to Spain in 1827, acted for a short time as governor of the territory. Octavia was educated under a Scotch tutor and became a proficient linguist. She was allowed to give a name to the capital of Florida and she selected Tallahassee. She was a noted belle and was presented to Lafayette when he visited Mobile in 1825. She travelled exten-