Background
Beal, Francis Leavitt was born on December 31, 1864 in Cohasset, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Zaccheus Leavitt and Marcia Priscilla (Tower) Beal.
Beal, Francis Leavitt was born on December 31, 1864 in Cohasset, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Zaccheus Leavitt and Marcia Priscilla (Tower) Beal.
Graduate Cohasset High School, 1880. Took full divinity course under tutor. (Doctor of Divinity, Potomac University, 1916.
Doctor of Letters, Lincoln-Jefferson University, 1918.
Doctor of Philosophy, in course, Potomac University, 1920. Doctor of Laws, Lincoln-Jefferson University, 1920.
In charge Saint John's Church. Saugus, Massachusetts, 1902-1907. Deacon, 1906, priest, 1910, P.E., Church.
Rector Saint Paul’s Church, Beachmont, 1907-1910, Church of the Ascension, Cambridge, 1910-1918, Saint Paul’s Church, Peabody, Massachusetts, 1918-1922, Saint James Church, Somerville, Massachusetts, since 1922.
President Massachusetts College Osteopathy. Instructor practical theology and religious pedagogy, Potomac U. Secretary Archdeaconry of Lowell.
Secretary-treasurer Massachusetts Clerical Association.
Member Massachusetts Society Mayflower Descendants, Sons of the American Revolution, Society War of 1812, P. Stearns Davis Post G.A.R. (honorary). Mason (Knight of the Order of the Thistle), Odd; Member Alpha Delta Epsilon and Epsilon Tau Chirurgical
Married Gertrude Scolley, of Boston, Massachusetts, June 30, 1887.