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Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (November 10, 1791 – December 27, 1858) was a Yale-educated attorney who became the first Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, where he encouraged innovation by inventors Samuel F.B. Morse and Samuel Colt.
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth graduated from Yale in 1810. He studied law at Litchfield Law School, and in 1832 he was appointed Commissioner of Indian tribes in Arkansas and Oklahoma. In 1835, Ellsworth was elected mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, but only served one month.
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, American agriculturist, was born in Windsor, Connecticut in 1791. He graduated from Yale in 1810 and became a lawyer, businessman, and farmer. In 1832 he made a trip west as one of the commissioners appointed to superintend the removal of Indians to what is now Oklahoma.
RoleTitleHolding RepositoryreferencedInWilliam L. Clements LibraryreferencedInArchives & Special Collections at the ...creatorOfClemson University Libraries, Robert ...referencedInRosenbach Museum & LibraryHenry Leavitt Ellsworth, 1791–1858, American agriculturist, b. Windsor, Conn., grad. Yale, 1810. His interests were varied. He was a lawyer, businessman, and farming enthusiast. In 1832 he made a trip west as one of the commissioners appointed to superintend the removal of Native Americans to what is now Oklahoma.
Ellsworth's name is found only in v. 7, p. 11 in Gould's lecture on waste. Henry Leavitt Ellsworth's papers are in Sterling Library. Pleadings are the mutual altercations between Plaintiff and Defendant put into the legal form and set down in writing. Pleas were anciently oral.
Print of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth. Henry Leavitt Ellsworth was the son of Chief Justice Oliver and Abigail (Wolcott) Ellsworth. He was also the twin brother of William Wolcott Ellsworth who attended the Litchfield Law School in 1811. Ellsworth was prepared for college by Nathan Johnson.
In this capacity, he was to superintend the removal of Indian tribes to the south and west of Arkansas, and his journal of 1832 describes the life of the Indians in eastern Oklahoma. There is also one letter from Henry Leavitt Ellsworth to his son, Henry William Ellsworth, 27 July 1834.
