Leavittsburg

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A census-designated place in Trumbull County, Ohio, USA.

Word forms

Leavittsburg

Etymology

From Leavitt + -s- + -burg. Named for the Leavitt family of Suffield, Connecticut, a prominent early mercantile New England family originally from Hingham, Massachusetts. Thaddeus Leavitt was one of the eight original purchasers of the Western Reserve lands from the state of Connecticut.

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