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William Homer Leavitt
William Homer Leavitt (April 23, 1868 – August 8, 1951) was an American portrait painter who married the daughter of politician William Jennings Bryan. For a time, Leavitt was a sought-after society portraitist, until he departed for Paris to pursue his art. He was subsequently divorced by his wife, and his two children were raised by their politician grandfather. Leavitt's two children became the subject of a heated custody battle chronicled in the newspapers of the day.
==Early life and career==
William Homer Leavitt was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, to Aaron Littlefield Leavitt and his wife Sarah (Clark) Leavitt. The family subsequently removed in 1880 to Newport, Rhode Island, where William Homer Leavitt, having studied art in Paris, returned and set himself up as a society portrait painter. He was much in demand, and among the many well-known figures he painted was United States General Joseph Wheeler, who after the portrait session lent Leavitt his black horse, Alabama. The horse bucked and threw Leavitt onto Newport's Bellevue Avenue.〔(Newport Artist Injured, The New York Times, September 11, 1901 )〕 Initially Leavitt was not expected to recover, although he did later make a full recovery.〔(The News of Newport, The New York Times, September 12, 1901 )〕
Two years later Leavitt's career had taken off, causing The New York Times to note that "artist Leavitt has won distinction in his work and has a host of friends in intellectual circles." That same year, 1903, Leavitt went west to Lincoln, Nebraska, to paint the portrait of attorney and Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan.〔(Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-century Florida, Jack E. Davis, Kari A. Frederickson, Raymond Arsenault, Gary Mormino, Published by University Press of Florida, 2003, ISBN 0-8130-3129-X, 9780813031293 )〕 The portrait sessions were repeatedly interrupted by demands on Bryan, and the 32-year-old artist and the politician's 18-year-old daughter Ruth Bryan struck up a friendship.〔(Miss Ruth Bryan Married, The New York Times, October 4, 1903 )〕 On September 17, 1903, the couple announced their plans to marry the next month, meaning the politician's daughter would leave her freshly started career at the University of Nebraska.〔(Ruth Bryan's Engagement Announced, The New York Times, September 18, 1903 )〕 In announcing the marriage, ''The New York Times'' noted that "Preparations () Under Way to Make It an Elaborate Society Event."〔(The Leavitt-Bryan Wedding, The New York Times, September 23, 1903 )〕
But the big society wedding never transpired. Senator Bryan opposed the match, because of the difference in ages of the couple, as well as the fact that his daughter Ruth had just begun college.〔(''Everywhere'', An American Magazine of World-Wide Interest, Edited by Will Carleton, New York, 1908 )〕 The couple married, in a small civil ceremony – described by the newspapers as 'informal' – attended by Bryan's parents, the members of Miss Bryan's college sorority and the widow of the college president and minister who had married William Jennings Bryan and his wife. William Leavitt's mother traveled to Nebraska from Rhode Island for the wedding, which was held in the Bryan home at Lincoln. "In accordance with Miss Bryan's wishes and those of her parents," noted The Oswego Daily Times, "the wedding appointments will be void of any attempt at elaboration."〔(The Oswego Daily Times, October 3, 1903 )〕
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