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Leventhorpe, Collett

soldier, was born May 15, 1815, in England. He served in the civil war with distinction and attained the rank of brigadier-general for meritorious services. He died Dec. 1, 1889, in Rutherford, N. C.

LEVERETT, FREDERICK PERCIVAL, educator, author, was born Sept. 11, 1803, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a once distinguished educator of Boston. Besides annotated editions of Juvenal and other classics, he prepared a much-valued Lexicon of the Latin Language. He died Oct. 6, 1836, in Boston, Mass.

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