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

The founding partners were David H. Mount of Rocky Hill, and three Princeton men: Edward Howe, his brother Leavitt Howe and William Harris.

* Leavitt Howe ( 1836 – 1904 ), founder with brother Edward Howe and two others of Bay Head Land Company, 1879.

* Jonathan Leavitt, founder, early New York City publishing house

Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, first Commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office | U. S. Patent Office, founder, United States Department of Agriculture

Raphy Leavitt ( born September 17, 1948 ) is a Puerto Rican composer and founder of the salsa orchestra " La Selecta ".

Leavitt was named for his ancestor Thomas Dudley, the founder of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and second colonial governor of Massachusetts.

Leavitt, as he entered the jury room, said he was prepared to answer questions about the $12,500 his liquor firm paid to Stein for `` labor consultant work '' with five unions which organized Leavitt's workers.

Whether with housework, handiwork, or academics, Grandma Leavitt offered a pragmatic framework, stressing that " everything undertaken must be completed, conquered.

Her portrait of The Reverend Matthew Blackburne Grier was particularly well-received, as was Sita and Sarita, a portrait of her cousin Charles W. Leavitt's wife Sarah ( Allibone ) Leavitt in white, with a small black cat perched on her shoulder, both gazing out mysteriously.

In 2001, Jell-O was declared the " Official State Snack " of Utah, with Governor Michael O. Leavitt declaring an annual " Jell-O Week.

In 1843 he was one of the founders of the New Englander ( later the Yale Review ), and in 1848, with Richard Salter Storrs, Joshua Leavitt, Joseph Parrish Thompson, and Henry C. Bowen, he founded the Independent, a magazine designed primarily to combat slavery extension ; he was an editor of the Independent until 1863.

The Indian Clerk ( 2007 ) is a novel by David Leavitt based on Hardy's life at Cambridge, including his discovery of and relationship with Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Main character at David Leavitt The Indian Clerk ( 2007 ), which depicts his Cambridge years and the relationship with John Edensor Littlewood and Ramanujan.

In the late 19th century, Dudley Leavitt Pickman, descendant of an old Salem merchant family, and his wife Ellen fell in love with the land.

John Smith ( 15 shares ); Ensign John Thaxter ( 16½ shares ); and deacon John Leavitt ( with 14½ shares ).

Leavitt declined, because he wanted code that could interact with other aspects of the site.

Leavitt graduated with a degree in and from Southern Utah University and married Jacalyn Smith.

Leavitt's business career started with his joining The Leavitt Group, a regional insurance company founded by his father.

Leavitt was re-elected in 1996 with the largest vote total in state history.

" Others, including philosopher Frank J. Leavitt, have argued that due to Bates ' emphasis on relaxation and visualization, application of his principles would depend heavily on each individual, as with martial arts and yoga, and that the Bates method is therefore not discredited simply by its failure to become mainstream.

Daniel Leavitt was the subject of a famous lawsuit after producing a transitional revolver in 1851 with an identical loading lever to the Colt Dragoon.

Leavitt wrestled with limited success at first, and after an injury took a job as a police officer in Miami, Florida.

To this end, a standard candle measurement for Cepheid variables was discovered by Henrietta Swan Leavitt in 1908 which would provide Edwin Hubble with the rung on the cosmic distance ladder he would need to determine the distance to spiral nebula.

In the United States, the first successful postmarking machine was developed by Thomas Leavitt in the 1870s, with covers known from 1876.

John Leavitt Stevens ( August 1, 1820 – February 8, 1895 ) was the United States Department of State Minister to the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 when he was accused of conspiring to overthrow Queen Liliuokalani in association with the Committee of Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston and Sanford B. Dole – the first Americans attempting to overthrow a foreign government under the auspices of a United States government officer.

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.

From 1991, she had a relationship with the co-creator of Married ... with Children, Ron Leavitt, which continued until Leavitt's death in 2008.

Annie Goodrich Ellsworth, only daughter of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, married the publisher Roswell Smith, who with his partner Josiah Gilbert Holland founded, in partnership with the publishing house Charles Scribner & Co., Scribner's Monthly and St. Nicholas magazines.

In 1919, Richard met Lorenz Hart, thanks to Phillip Leavitt, a friend of Richard's older brother.

Leavitt's descendants continued to remain in Charlemont and the surrounding region, and several — including Col. Roger Hooker Leavitt, who represented Charlemont in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and his brother Hart Leavitt -- became notable operators of stations on the Underground Railroad, sheltering many escaped slaves on their journeys northward.

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

His twin brother was Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, first Commissioner of the United States Patent Office.

Among Ellsworth's Yale classmates was Samuel F. B. Morse, whose idea of the telegraph would later be championed by Ellsworth's twin brother Henry Leavitt Ellsworth during his term as the first Commissioner of the U. S. Patent Office.

Richard Morris Hunt was the brother of the Boston painter William Morris Hunt, and the photographer and lawyer Leavitt Hunt.

Walzer is the older brother of historian Judith Walzer Leavitt.

William Wolcott Ellsworth, twin brother of Henry Leavitt, was married to another of Noah Webster's daughters.

His brother Leavitt Hunt was a well-known photographer and attorney.

In 1641, the local Native Americans had granted a large part of modern-day Seekonk to purchasers from Hingham, including Edward Gilman Sr., Joseph Peck, John Leavitt and others.

President George W. Bush gestures as he addresses his remarks to the media in Camp David, following a meeting with his economic advisors, from left to right, Edward P. Lazear, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors ; Rob Portman, director of the Office of Management and Budget ; U. S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao ; Vice President Dick Cheney ; U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson ; U. S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez ; U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael O. Leavitt and Allan Hubbard ( Presidential advisor ) | Allan Hubbard, director of the United States National Economic Council | National Economic Council.

O ' Neill lists as his favourite books: Ulysses, by James Joyce, The Last of the Wine, by Mary Renault, Hadrian the Seventh, by Frederick Rolfe ( Frederick Baron Corvo ), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon, The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Siege of Krishnapur, by J. G. Farrell, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, The Third Policeman, by Flann O ' Brien, The Swimming Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst, and The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt.

* Edward Chalmers Leavitt, artist