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LEAVENWORTH, Abner Johnson, educator, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, 2 July, 1803; died in Petersburg, Virginia, 12 February, 1869. He was graduated at Amherst in 1825, studied theology at Andover, and was licensed to preach as a Congregationalist, 22 April, 1828. After holding charges at Orange and Bristol, Connecticut, he became pastor, in 1831, of the Young ladies' seminary at Charlotte, North Carolina, and in 1838 removed to Warrenton, Virginia, where he again took charge of a school until he was called, in 1840, to a Presbyterian church at Petersburg, Virginia Resigning in 1844, he became the principal and proprietor of the Leavenworth academy and collegiate seminary for young ladies, which acquired a wide reputation throughout the south. Mr. Leavenworth was a vigorous and ready writer, and as corresponding secretary of the Virginia educational association, which he was largely instrumental in founding, exerted a powerful influence for good throughout the southern states.
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