Ashley Day Leavitt

Background

Leavitt, Ashley Day was born on October 10, 1877 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Burke Fay and Lucina Maria (Day) Leavitt.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1900. Bachelor of Divinity, Hartford Theological Seminary, 1903. Doctor of Divinity, Bowdoin, 1918.

Career

Ordained Congleton ministry, 1903. Assistant to Doctor East. P. Parker, South. Church, Hartford, Connecticut, 1903-1904. Pastor Willimantic, 1904-1908, South. Church, Concord, New Hampshire (U.S.), 1908-1913, State Saint Church, Portland, Maine, 1913-1919, Harvard Church, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1919-1949, emeritus, since 1949.

Congressional National council preacher, 1934.

Chairman Prudential Committee American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1926-1938. President Greater Boston Federal Churches, 1926-1928, 1944-1946.

Gates lecturer Grinnell (Iowa) College, 1938.

Achievements

• Ashley Day Leavitt has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Jesus and The Jury A Living Faith for Living Men
  • Jesus and the Jury

Membership

Member Psi Upsilon. Skull and Bones (Yale). Clubs: Congregational (president, 1929-1930), Yale (president 1928).

Connections

Married Myrtle R. Hart, September 7, 1904. Children: Hart Day, Julia.

Father:

Burke Fay Leavitt

Mother:

Lucina Maria (Day) Leavitt

Spouse:

Myrtle R. Hart

child:

Hart Day Leavitt

child:

Julia Leavitt