Editing Leavittsburg, Ohio (section)

==History==
Leavittsburg is named for the Leavitt family of [[Suffield, Connecticut]], a prominent early mercantile New England family originally from [[Hingham, Massachusetts]]. [[Thaddeus Leavitt]] Esq. was one of the eight original purchasers of the [[Western Reserve]] lands from the state of Connecticut. (Leavitt and Suffield businessmen [[Oliver Phelps (politician)|Oliver Phelps]], [[Gideon Granger]], Luther Loomis and Asahel Hatheway owned between them one-quarter of all the lands in the [[Western Reserve]] assigned to Connecticut.)<ref>[http://www.suffield-library.org/history/leavitt/index.htm Thaddeus Leavitt Diary, Suffield Library, Suffield, Conn.]</ref> Leavitt was married to Elizabeth King, the daughter of William King and Lucy (Hatheway), two prominent Suffield families.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.suffieldhistoricalsociety.org/families/king.htm |title=Family History of James King, Suffield Historical Society, Suffield, Conn. |access-date=April 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509091151/http://www.suffieldhistoricalsociety.org/families/king.htm |archive-date=May 9, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WLfMU4yd1FYC&dq=%22thaddeus+leavitt%22+elizabeth+king&pg=PA407 The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, New York, 1874]</ref> 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. He was also the inventor of an early [[cotton gin]].

[[Humphrey H. Leavitt]], a [[U.S. congressman]] from Ohio born in Suffield, was a member of this family, as was [[John Leavitt (Ohio settler)|John Leavitt]], the owner of the first inn in Warren. Another member of the extended family was [[Henry Leavitt Ellsworth]] who traveled to Ohio in 1811 to investigate family lands in the region.<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/ellsworth.html Oliver Ellsworth Family Papers, land in Western Reserve, The Library of Congress]</ref> (Ellsworth's father [[Oliver Ellsworth]] had purchased over {{convert|41000|acre|km2}} in the Western Reserve, including most of present-day [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]].) The resulting volume was entitled ''A Tour to New Connecticut in 1811'', and was published later after the manuscript was discovered in the Yale University library.  A young Yale graduate of 19 when he made his first trip to New Connecticut (Ohio), Ellsworth went on to make several more trips to the west. Author [[Washington Irving]] accompanied Ellsworth on a subsequent trip over 20 years later, calling his journal ''A Tour on the Prairies''.

A [[post office]] with the name Leavittsburgh was established March 15, 1864; the spelling was amended to Leavittsburg with effect from July 19, 1893.<ref>Gallagher, John S. and Patera, Alan H. (1979). ''The Post Offices of Ohio'', p. 232. Burtonsville, Maryland: The Depot.</ref> Leavittsburg was designated as the market town of Trumbull County, but [[Warren, Ohio|Warren]] supplanted Leavittsburg, which remains mostly woodland.