Leavitt had an only brother, Russell Greenleaf Leavitt, who graduated from Harvard College, Class of 1917, and subsequently received a deferment from the military for poor eyesight, but who later drove an ambulance with the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps during the First World War.
Leavitt had an only brother who graduated from Harvard College, and subsequently received a deferment from the military for poor eyesight, but who later drove an ambulance with the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps during the First World War. Harvard College was Class of 1917. Russell Greenleaf Leavitt was an only brother.