Judge Thomas Leavitt
September 29, 1832 – November 3, 1920
The Hamptons Union, November 4, 1920, p.1
EXETER, N.H. — Judge Thomas Leavitt, retired judge of Rockingham county probate court, died at his home in Exeter Wednesday morning, [Nov. 3, 1920].
Judge Leavitt was born in Hampton, Sept. 29, 1832. He was a graduate of Bowdoin in 1856. He studied law with the late ex-Gov. Bell and held a law partnership with Gen. Gilman Marston and J. Warren Towle, two leading attorneys of their day. He was the oldest member of the Rockingham Bar and probably in the state. He is survived by a widow, one son, Thomas, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Henry W. Broughton of Jamaica Plain, Mass.
The funeral will be held in Exeter at two o’clock Friday afternoon, and burial will be at Hampton.
Also see: Thomas Leavitt’s reminiscences of life in Hampton in the mid 1800s in seven parts.