Elias W. Leavenworth. Library of Congress description: "Leavenworth, Hon. Elias Warner of N.Y.".
Date
between 1865 and 1880
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.05008. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH832- 29475 <P&P>[P&P]
English: Elias Warner Leavenworth ( December 20, 1803 - November 25, 1887) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Canaan, he moved with his parents to Great Barrington in 1806. He attended the Hudson Academy and was graduated from Yale College in 1824; he studied law in Great Barrington and in the Litchfield Law School from 1825 to 1827. He was admitted to the bar in 1827 and practiced in Syracuse until 1850, when he abandoned the practice of law because of ill health. He passed through the various grades and was appointed brigadier general of militia in 1836. He was president of Syracuse village from 1839 to 1841 and in 1846 and 1847, and was mayor of the town in 1849, 1850, 1859, and 1860.
Mathew Brady died in 1896 and Levin C. Handy died in 1932. Photographs in this collection are in the public domain in the United States as works published before 1929 or as unpublished works whose copyright term has expired (life of author + 70 years).
== Summary == {{Information |Description= Elias W. Leavenworth. Library of Congress description: "Leavenworth, Hon. Elias Warner of N.Y.". |Source=Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Co