L. Brooks Leavitt (1878–1941) was an investment banker and antiquarian book collector who served as an overseer of Bowdoin College, to whose library he donated part of his collection of rare books and manuscripts. Born in Wilton, Maine, to a father who was a stagecoach driver who died when Leavitt was young, Brooks Leavitt was an aesthete turned banker whom Maine's poet laureate later eulogized at his funeral.
L. Brooks Leavitt, Bowdoin College, Class of 1899
Constitution of the Pot-8-0 Club, secret society formed by Bowdoin undergraduate Nathaniel Hawthorne and five others, circa 1824. Gift to Bowdoin College Library by alumnus L. Brooks Leavitt
Brooks Leavitt home, architect John Calvin Stevens, Wilton, ca. 1925
Wilton is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,835 at the 2020 census. Situated beside Wilson Pond, the former mill town is today primarily a recreation area.
Wilton, Maine
East Wilton depot in 1919
Bass shoe factory in 1914
Wilson Lake in 1914