Cecilia Beaux was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter of French silk manufacturer Jean Adolphe Beaux and teacher Cecilia Kent Leavitt, daughter of prominent businessman John Wheeler Leavitt of New York City and his wife Cecilia Kent of Suffield, Connecticut.

Dr. Asaph Leavitt Bissell, graduate of the Yale Medical School, and early Suffield physician

Ebenezer Gay, a renowned Congregational minister ; U. S. Postmaster General Gideon Granger ; real estate speculator Oliver Phelps, once the largest landowner in America ; composer Timothy Swan ; architect Henry A. Sykes ; sculptor Olin Levi Warner ; Seth Pease, surveyor of the Western Reserve lands in Ohio, most of which were controlled by Suffield financiers and speculators ; and Thaddeus Leavitt, inventor of an early cotton gin, merchant and patentee of the Western Reserve lands.

Dr. Asaph Leavitt Bissell, born in 1791 at Hanover, New Hampshire to parents originally from Suffield, attended Dartmouth College, and later graduated in the second class of the Yale Medical School.

Leavittsburg is the burial place of members of the Leavitt family, a family of early Ohio settlers who came from Suffield, Connecticut to settle family lands granted as part of the Western Reserve.

Leavittsburg is named for the Leavitt family of Suffield, Connecticut, a prominent early mercantile New England family originally from Hingham, Massachusetts.

) Leavitt was married to Elizabeth King, the daughter of William King and Lucy ( Hatheway ), two prominent Suffield families.

Leavitt had a fleet of ships that traded as far afield as the British West Indies and was a selectman for the town of Suffield.

Humphrey H. Leavitt, a U. S. congressman from Ohio born in Suffield, was a member of this family, as was John Leavitt, the owner of the first inn in Warren.

His son Jonathan was married to Jane Maria Leavitt of Suffield, Connecticut, from the New England Dwight family heavily involved in the shipping business and in the purchase of the Western Reserve.

Born at Brattleboro, Vermont, Hunt was the son of Jane Maria Leavitt, born to an influential family of Suffield, Connecticut, and Hon.

( Among the eight original purchasers was a family relation, merchant Thaddeus Leavitt of Suffield.

John Taylor Gilman, Oliver Peabody, Col. Gilman Leavitt and others, was boarded by brigs belonging to the Royal Navy under command of Admiral Horatio Nelson.

* Oliver Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth Homestead, Windsor, Connecticut, birthplace of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, National Historic Landmark

Chauncey Allen Goodrich's sister Nancy was married to Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, lawyer, U. S. Patent Commissioner and son of Founding Father and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth.

In 1846, Lyman married four additional wives: Eliza Maria Partridge ( one of numerous widows of Joseph Smith and the 25-year-old sister of Lyman's wife Caroline ); Pauline Phelps, Priscilla Turley, and Cornelia Leavitt.

A relationship between the period and luminosity for classical Cepheids was discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt in an investigation of thousands of variable stars.

In 1913 he determined the distances to several Cepheid variable stars by statistical parallax, and was thus able to calibrate the relationship discovered by Henrietta Leavitt between Cepheid period and luminosity.

A relationship between the period and luminosity for classical Cepheids was discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt in an investigation of thousands of variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds.

By comparing this to the periodicity of the variables as measured by Leavitt, he was able to estimate a distance of 10, 000 parsecs ( 30, 000 light years ) between the Sun and the SMC.

Neither Herring or Leavitt claim a trademark on the name and only wish that there be no confusion between their Qmail software and this product which came later.

The governor of Utah in 1999, Michael O. Leavitt, heard the sound of the tornado moving between the tall glass buildings just before the windows imploded.

On January 2011, a settlement of $ 2. 75 million was reached between USF and Jim Leavitt.

NH 107 between U. S. Route 3 and Leavitt Rd.

He was the Bulls ' interim head coach for six days in January 2010 between the firing of Jim Leavitt and the hiring of Skip Holtz.

The company also manufactured Wesson & Leavitt revolvers between 1850 and 1851.

Having been denied the opportunity to paint and draw by an overbearing father, Jane Leavitt Hunt resolved that her children would be given the chance to study the arts in the best academies — even if it meant moving to Europe to attend them.

Among them were George Folsom, Henry Grinnell, Henry Varnum Poor, Hiram Barney, Alexander Isaac Cotheal, Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, S. De Witt Bloodgood, John Romeyn Brodhead, Joshua Leavitt and Archibald Russell.

The families of Howe, Dunbar and Leavitt were all early Grantham settlers.

The grant to Smith and Leavitt — who together bought other large tracts from the Native Americans for themselves and their partners — was " on condition that they satisfy all the charge about the purchase of the town's land of Josiah — Indian sagamore, both the principal purchase and all the other charge that hath been about it ".

Leavitt said, " It's a way I created to compare people and what they do across all kinds of different areas.

According to an undated reference by Leavitt, Juba lost one challenge, at the Boylston Gardens in Boston, but records show that he beat Diamond in all other competitions.

Leavitt signed his first class in 1996 for the first varsity season in 1997 ; all players redshirted in 1996.

Another member of the extended family was Henry Leavitt Ellsworth who traveled to Ohio in 1811 to investigate family lands in the region.

While Governor, Leavitt and Roy Romer of Colorado were the two key founders of Western Governors University in 1997, one of the first exclusively online schools in the nation.

In 1997, he along with Michael O. Leavitt when he was governor of Utah, and Jim Geringer when he was governor of Wyoming led a bipartisan team of 19 state governors in the founding of Western Governors University.

Leavitt soon gave up law for the ministry, training at Yale Theological Seminary and settling in Stratford, Connecticut, before decamping for New York City and a career that included the editorship of The Emancipator.

He died prematurely at Chowan County, North Carolina on Aug. 22, 1784, and his two daughters by his wife Sylvia ( Avery ) Stiles of Vermont ( and formerly of Norwich, Connecticut ) had their uncle Jonathan Leavitt appointed their guardian.

Previously, in the late 1840s, Daniel Wesson's brother Edwin, of Hartford, Connecticut, had manufactured revolvers under the name of Wesson & Leavitt.

Washington Irving wrote of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, " this worthy leader of our little band ": " He was a native of one of the towns of Connecticut, a man in whom a course of legal practice and political life had not been able to vitiate an innate simplicity and benevolence of heart.

* 500 Farmers Wanted, Advertisement for Land Sale by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, Lafayette, Indiana, April 29, 1847, Connecticut History Online

* Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, of Connecticut, New York Public Library Digital Gallery

* A Tour to New Connecticut in 1811: The Narrative of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, Phillip R. Shriver ( ed.

On their way to a dance in Connecticut in 1971, the band's van had an accident, killing trumpet player Luis Maysonet and severely injuring Leavitt.