Lyon County
Hon. Grandville Leavitt
Biography
(Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney)
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Nevada Genealogy Trails Lyon County Hon. Grandville Leavitt Biography (Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney) |
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HON. GRANDVILLE I. LEAVITT, M. D., the oldest physician and surgeon in his portion of Nevada, where for the past quarter of a century he has successfully practiced his chosen profession, was born in Waterford, Oxford county, Maine, May 13, 1839. He comes of an old English family and traces his ancestry back to the Mayflower, and numbers them among the brave men who conquered first the wilderness and then their foes in the Revolution. His father, Isaac Leavitt, was born in what is now Maine, and married Sarah Berry, a daughter of an old New England family, but of Irish ancestry. His father died when Dr. Leavitt was a child, and the latter went to California when yet a boy, receiving his education in the University of the Pacific Coast and his medical training in the medical department of the California State University, from which he was graduated in 1866. His first practice was carried on in Butte county, but later he removed to Sierra county, Howland Flat, and then spent five years at Loyalton, finally coming to what is now Yerington, although he found it called Pison, but later Greenfield, and finally Yerington. For many years he was the only physician in this portion of the state, and his services were in great demand, and his practice extended over a wide territory. Until the silver question came up before the people, Dr. Leavitt was a strong Republican, but he was one of the first to announce his belief that there should be free and unlimited coinage of silver, and has since held to these views. In 1885 he was sent to the state assembly, where he did gallant service for his district and for the state in general. He was also elected to the state senate by a very large majority. For the past six years he has been the government physician for the Indian reservation, and visits the reservation twice a week, and also treats the Indians at his office. In addition to other interests Dr. Leavitt owns two hundred and forty acres of excellent land adjacent to the city, on which he has a very pleasant home. He also owns a substantial two-story structure in town, where he has his office and where one of his sons has a general store. The upper story is fitted for a lodge hall and is one well suited for the purpose. In 1869 Dr. Leavitt was married to Miss Emma Young, in Butte county, California. She is a native of Missouri, but was educated in California. The following children have been born of this union, namely: Melville, a merchant in Yerington, is married and has a son; Grandville Ernest, a physician who served in the Philippines in the Second Califorina Regiment, is a graduate of Stanford University and of the Cooper Medical College, and is purposing taking his father's practice in Lyon county; George Allen, a teacher, is principal of the Wadsworth schools; Edgar is attending the University of Nevada; James Dwight is attending the University of Nevada; Louis Selwin is attending the Valley schools. Dr. Leavitt appreciates the advantages conferred by a good education, and has exerted himself to fit his sons, all of whom are manly young fellows, in this particular. At St. Louis, Sierra county, California, Dr. Leavitt was made a Mason, and his filled all the offices of the lodge and is now past master, and is a charter member of Hope Lodge of Yerington, and has always been very active in lodge work. He is also a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mrs. Leavitt is a member of the Eastern Star, as is also her husband, and both have always taken an influential part in the social life of Yerington, where they are most highly esteemed.
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