"Private W. A. Leavitt, Marine Corp, who today established a worlds record for dismantling and reassembling a Browning automatic Rifle while blind folded. His official time 1 minute and 7 seconds. He has an unofficial record of 1 minute."
- from National Photo, dated March 31, 1923 This is Wayne Arthur Leavitt, who was born 22 Feb 1900 in Marion, Kansas, to Charles A and Stella (Whaley) Leavitt [Israel Genealogy, pg 129]. During World War I, he had served in the US Army, with the Aero Squadron, including time overseas (6/22/18-3/6/19). In March 1922, he enlisted with the Marine Corps, and served with them through several terms, finally retiring in Sept 1937. He was stationed at Parris Island, SC, the Infantry Weapons School in Quantico, VA, Adjutant and Inspector's Office Headquarters in Washington, DC, and in Philadelphia, PA. He afterwards returned to Kansas, and took up farming. At the time of his death in 1960, he was living in Arlington, Virginia. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery (his 2nd wife Callie, whom he married in 1950, is also buried with him there). -- Steve Dow (from personal collection, purchased in Apr 2017)
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A recent addition to my personal collection, this cabinet card photo was labeled as "Grace S Leavitt, East Lexington, Mass, June 1895", and was from a collection of photos of Salem Normal School graduates from that year. Further research found her to be Grace Sanford Leavitt, the daughter of Alonzo and Emma J (Derby) Leavitt, who was born in Lexington, MA on 5 July 1875. Records of the State Normal School in Salem, MA do show her attending classes there.
Grace went on to work as a clerk for the State House, and would later become head clerk for the Department of Corporations and Taxes in Boston. Moving from Lexington, she afterwards lived in Boston and Canton, MA. She did not marry until late in life, to the widower Nixon Waterman in 1940. He died in 1944, and she passed away in Sharon, MA on 15 Feb 1970. She was a member of the old NALF organization, becoming the association secretary in 1938, a position she held for six years. She was Thomas line (Thomas Book, pg 103). - posted by Steve Welcome to our blog page. Nothing to view yet, but we'll be posting here soon.
As our newsletter only has a limited amount of space to share stories and newsworthy items, we will use this blog to continue our writings. At the moment, we have been using our NALF Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/139227729611668/, to post our additional material. Please join there as well, so we can all keep in touch. - Steve |
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