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Julia Leavitt
Gender:
Female
Born:
1798
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Brooklyn, NY
Biographical Notes:
Julia Leavitt was the daughter of Samuel and Lydia Wheeler Leavitt of Brooklyn, New York. Born in 1798, Julia attended the Litchfield Female Academy as a young woman.
Education
Years at LFA:
Unknown
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Lydia Wheeler Leavitt
Mother - Samuel Leavitt
Father
The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation. Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
Emily Noyes Vanderpoel transcribed a letter written to her by Ann Eliza Jackson in 1897 recounting her memories of the Litchfield Female Academy. In it she mentions fellow classmate Julia Leavitt of Brooklyn (Vandeproel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
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