Henry Leavitt Ellsworth
American businessman
Died when: 67 years 47 days (805 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (November 10, 1791 – December 27, 1858) was a Yale-educated attorney who became the first Commissioner of the U.S.Patent Office, where he encouraged innovation by inventors Samuel F.B.
Morse and Samuel Colt.Ellsworth also served as the second president of the Aetna Insurance Company, and was a major donor to Yale College, a commissioner to Indian tribes on the western frontier, and the founder of what became the United States Department of Agriculture.
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