Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Julius M. LEAVITT, Prof.
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri; 1889, published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 668, 669 
Polk County Biographies Section

    Prof. Julius M. Leavitt, president of the Southwest Baptist
College, the oldest child of Sylvester and Mary A. (Whittemore)
Leavitt, natives of Ohio, was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, 
August 18, 1857.  His father was a farmer, and in 1863 volunteered
with the 100-days men, and died in Westchester County, N. Y.  
His mother still lives in Ohio.  In the family were two children.  
Prof. Leavitt was educated in the public schools and at Hopedale 
Normal College, graduating in 1879, from which time up to 1881 he
was principal of Hopedale public schools.  In 1882 he was principal
of schools in Effingham, Ill., after which he took a post-graduate
course at Ann Arbor, Mich.  In that year he was elected professor
of higher mathematics in the Southwest Baptist College, vice-
president in 1884, and president in 1886, which position he still
holds.  In addition to the regular college degrees conferred by
the institutions from which he graduated, he has received the 
honorary degree of A. M. from Ewing College, Ill., and Ph. D. from
Mt. Lebanon University, La.  August 5, 1879, Prof. Leavitt married
Miss Florence J. Baldwin, of Hopedale, Ohio, a graduate of the
musical department of Hopedale Normal College and of Dana's 
Musical Institute, Warren, Ohio, and who for some time had charge
of the musical department of Hopedale Normal College.  They have
two children, Thomas S. and Alpheus F.  They are members of the
Baptist Church, and his is a Mason.
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