Leavitt, Dudley (1772-1851)
- Name:
- Leavitt, Dudley (1772-1851)
- Title:
- Publisher, Gilmanton Gazette
Author and Publisher, Leavitt's Genuine Improved New-England Farmer's Almanack, and Agricultural Register, 1797- - Born:
- 05/23/1772
- Birthplace:
- Exeter, NH
- Died:
- 09/15/1851
- Death Location:
- Meredith, NH
- Residence:
- Exeter, NH 1772-
Gilmanton, NH, 1794-1806
Meredith, NH 1806-1851 - Nationality:
- American
- Occupation:
- Almanac Publisher
Teacher, Meredith Academick School
Newspaper Editor
Mathematician
Textbook author - Father:
- Leavitt, Joshua
- Mother:
- James, Elizabeth
- Spouse:
- Glidden, Judith (1778-1853), April 7, 1795
- Children:
- Betsey, born June 20, 1795
Isaac, born June 17, 1797; died March 2, 1798
Isaac, born December 31, 1798
Enos, born January 30, 1801; died June 6, 1819
Josiah, born December 15, 1803
Judith, born April 8, 1805; died November 15, 1813
Jane, born June 29, 1807
Dudley, born June 19, 1810; graduate of Harvard College, 1839
Mary, born March 25, 1813
Judith, born September 24, 1815
Livilla, born July 16, 1818; died July 21, 1855 - Notes:
- Leavitt's Farmers' Almanac was first published in 1797. Leavitt was famed for being a fine mathematician and astronomer and his calculations were used after his death. Leavitt used to hold the "Meredith Academick School" at his house. He took up the study of Latin and Greek when he was 25 years old, studied Hebrew and French after he came to Meredith.
Dean Dudley, History of the Dudley Family, With Genealogical Tables, Pedigrees, &c. Part VI. (Wakefield, Massachusetts: Dean Dudley, 1892), 801-802.
Mary E. N. Hannaford, Meredith, New Hampshire: Annals and Genealogies. (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1932), 103-105, 296-297.
Polly A. Prescott, "Some Memories of Dudley Leavitt," The Granite Monthly, 20(April,1896)4, 265-266.
"Dudley Leavitt, the 'Almanac Maker'," Concord Daily Monitor, Concord, New Hampshire, November 2, 1874.
"Death of Dudley Leavitt, Esq.," New Hampshire Statesman, Concord, New Hampshire, September 20, 1851.
Leavitt Family Cemetery, Meredith, NH
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