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Leavitt, Samuel Dean

soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 12, 1837, in Eastport, Maine, which has always been his place of residence. He received a liberal education in the common schools and at Franklin and Dunne's academy. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar; and in October of the same year raised a company and was commissioned first lieutenant of company A, fifteenth regiment Maine volunteer infantry, and served with his regiment in the department of the Gulf. He served as judge advocate on General Chamberlain's staff. In 1873 he was elected a representative to the Maine state legislature, and received the re-election for a second term.

In 1879 he was elected adjutant-general of the state. In 1876 he was a delegate at large to the national convention that nominated Tilden. In 1886 he was appointed collector of customs. In 1893 he was instrumental in making Eastport a city, and was elected its first mayor. In 1895 he was appointed a commissioner to codify the laws for the national guard; was a commissioner to the Mexican exposition; is a prominent member of several fraternal orders; and has always been prominently identified with the public affairs of his city, county and state. LE BLOND, FRANCIS C., lawyer, congressman, was born in Ohio. In 1851 he was elected for two years to the Ohio state legislature; was re-elected in 1853, and served as speaker of that body. In 1862 was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress.

LE CLAIR, JOSEPH CLARENCE, lawyer, was born Sept. 12, 1871, in Green Bay, Wis. After receiving a liberal education, he was admitted to the bar; and has since attained success as an able lawyer in his native city.