Private Communion Set

Private Communion Set

Private communion set that had been given to George Price by descendants of The Reverend Dr. Horace Hall Leavitt, to whom it had belonged. Dr. Leavitt, married to the former Louise B. Whiteman, was the father of Mrs. Constance Scott and Mrs. Carlo Ninfi, both of Somesville. Leavitt's sister was Mrs. Charles E. Gilpatric of New York. Dr. Leavitt died in Somesville in 1966, at age 84. The Reverend Dr. Leavitt was a graduate of Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary. He was pastor of Presyterian churches in Amagansett and Brooklyn, New York and in Honolulu. The communion set is in a case initialed "H.H. L."