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Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928) was an American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer who designed everything from elaborate gardens on Long Island, New York and New Jersey estates to federal parks in Cuba, hotels in Puerto Rico, plans of towns in Florida, New York and elsewhere. New York publisher Julius David Stern ...
On Leavitt's own death at age 57 from pneumonia in 1928, the firm, which had become Charles Wellford Leavitt & Son, remained active until 1940, run by Leavitt's son Gordon.
Charles Leavitt (born 1956) [citation needed] is an American screenwriter best known for writing the 2006 film Blood Diamond.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wellford_Leavitt Was an American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer who designed everything from elaborate gardens on Long Island, New York and New Jersey estates to federal parks in Cuba, hotels in Puerto Rico, plans of towns in Florida, New York and...
Nomination of Leavitt for the Nobel Prize had to be halted because of her death. [4][5] A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a human computer, tasked with measuring photographic plates to catalog the positions and brightness of stars.
In 1903 she returned to work at HCO, continuing there, with many breaks due to family obligations and poor health, until her death in 1921 from abdominal cancer. She lived with her uncle Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, in a large villa he had built on Garden Street in Cambridge, until he died in 1916.
Born: 1871, Died: 1928. Born in Riverton, NJ, Charles Wellford Leavitt, Jr., received his early education at the Gunnery in Washington, CT, and at Cheltenham Academy in Cheltenham, PA. He began his career as an engineer in 1891, and by 1893 had secured a position with the New York Suburban Land Company.
