Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 1791-1858
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Ellsworth, Henry L.
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Henry L. Ellsworth
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Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt
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Ellsworth, H. L. 1791-1858
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Ellsworth, H. L. 1791-1858 (Henry Leavitt),
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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. In 1835, he was appointed U.S. Commissioner of Patents, remaining until 1845. Following this, Ellsworth settled in Lafayette, Indiana, acting as an agent for purchase and settlement of public land.
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.
Ellsworth, a native of Connecticut, graduated from Yale in 1810. He was president of the Aetna Insurance Company (1819-1821); an Indian commissioner (1832); and the commissioner of patents (1835-1845). An agriculturalist and a federal functionary, he has been called the father of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Ellsworth was the first United States commissioner of patents.
Agriculturist; appointed by President Jackson as commissioner to superintend the settlement of the Indian tribes transplanted to the south and west of Arkansas. On his way West, he met Washington Irving, Charles Joseph Latrobe, and Count Pourtales who were traveling together. They joined him and the trip was recorded by Irving in A Tour on the Prairies, 1835, and by Latrobe in The Rambler in North America, 1835.
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American bison hunting
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Indiana--Lafayette
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Lafayette (Ind.)
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Oklahoma
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Wabash River Valley
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Arkansas River
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West (U.S.)
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United States
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Fort Gibson (Okla.)
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Maumee River Valley (Ind. and Ohio)
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Oklahoma
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