Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Wellington Leavitt
LEAVITT, WELLINGTON (1854–1927), inducted between 1920–1936
Wellington Leavitt, known as “Duke,” learned the cattle business working for his father’s firm, Calvin Leavitt & Son, in Brighton, Massachusetts. Around 1875, he joined Swift and Company at Union Stock Yards, Chicago. Leavitt was Swift’s head cattle buyer for many years. He survived a bout with typhoid fever in 1904 and died at age seventy-three in 1927.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 126