When Benjamin Franklin Leavitt was born on 6 September 1816, in Naples, Cumberland, Maine, United States, his father, Josiah Leavitt, was 35 and his mother, Betsey Gammon, was 34. He married Harriet Ann Heath on 4 June 1844, in Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died in August 1868, at the age of 51, and was buried in Waldwick Cemetery, Waldwick, Iowa, Wisconsin, United States.
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Maine is the 23rd state.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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(of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French leuet ‘wolf cub’ (see Low 3).
habitational name from any of various places in Normandy called Livet. All are of obscure, presumably Gaulish, etymology.
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