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Josiah Leavitt
Dr. Josiah Leavitt (1744–1804) was an early Massachusetts physician and inventor. Possessed of an early love for mechanical movements and for music, Dr. Leavitt eventually gave up his medical practice and moved to Boston, where he became one of the earliest manufacturers of pipe organs in the United States.
== Early life ==
Josiah Leavitt was born October 21, 1744, in Hingham, Massachusetts, the son of Hezekiah and Grace (Hatch) Leavitt. Hezekiah Leavitt was a prosperous Hingham merchant who owned one of the town's largest warehouses on the harbor, a large wharf and a share of the town's gristmill and fisheries business.〔Josiah Leavitt's mother Grace Hatch was the second wife of Hezekiah Leavitt, whose brother Caleb Leavitt was married to Mary Hatch, Hannah's sister. Hezekiah Leavitt was a farmer and trader and one of Hingham's wealthiest citizens. In 1753 he built a warehouse near the town's shipyard for the convenience of his lumber, shipping and fishing businesses. He was styled 'Gentleman' in his will of 1768. Hezekiah Leavitt lived on Hingham's Leavitt Street.(Google Books Search )〕 Josiah Leavitt's father was a close friend and business associate of Rev. Ebenezer Gay,〔Rev. Ebenezer Gay served as minister of Old Ship Church for 69 years. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree by Harvard College in 1785. The Gay family were Tories, however, and were forced to flee Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War.(Google Books Search )〕 third minister of Old Ship Church, Hingham's Meetinghouse.〔(The Benevolent Deity, Robert John Wilson, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984 )〕
Following his education at Harvard College, Dr. Josiah Leavitt became a practicing physician at Hingham.〔Early Hingham Selectmen's Book of Records show that Dr. Leavitt had a thriving Hingham practice. But, noted Hingham historian George Lincoln, "his inventive perceptions... led him to seek other fields of employment."(Ancestry.com )〕 On the side, the mechanically-inclined Leavitt tinkered with inventions and mechanical movements. One of the first products of Leavitt's sideline was a large clock, manufactured in 1772–73, which was subsequently hung in a dormer window on the southwesterly slope of the roof of Old Ship Church, so that the clock's dial could be seen by townspeople.〔(A Discourse Delivered to the First Parish in Hingham, September 8, 1869, Calvin Lincoln, Published by the Parish, Printed by James F. Cotter & Co., Boston, 1873 )〕 Leavitt's clock, the first built in Hingham, was probably the only clock he ever built. Where Dr. Leavitt garnered his expertise is unknown, although contemporaries noted his mechanical aptitude, as well as the fact that his sister Hannah was married to Hingham watchmaker Joseph Lovis.〔(Early Clockmaking in Hingham, Massachusetts, Hingham Historical Society )〕
In 1774, Dr. Leavitt built a large Colonial clapboard home 〔Dr. Leavitt sold the home he built on Main Street to Joseph Blake during the American Revolutionary War, when the physician removed to Boston. The home was later occupied by George Bassett and his heirs.(Google Books Search )〕 at 93 Main Street, two blocks from the Meetinghouse.〔(Hingham, James Pierotti, Arcadia Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-7385-3781-0 )〕 But shortly afterwards, Leavitt moved to Sterling, Massachusetts,〔(Town of Sterling, Open Space and Recreation Plan )〕 where he built another Colonial home, and then a few years later to Boston, where he gave up his medical practice, embraced his affinity for music and mechanics and began manufacturing organs.
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