Francis Preserved Leavenworth


Francis Preserved Leavenworth was an American astronomer. He discovered many New General Catalogue objects together with Frank Muller and Ormond Stone. They used a telescope with a 66-cm aperture at the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He became a member of the Camden Astronomical Society shortly after its founding in 1888.
In 1909 he joined Frederick C. Leonard's Society for Practical Astronomy.