The founding trustees of Clinton Hall, located at Nassau and Beekman Streets in a hall constructed for the Association were Philip Hone, Arthur Tappan, William W. Woolsey, John Haggerty, Francis Olmstead, John A. Stevens and John W. Leavitt. Leavitt served as the Association's first treasurer.[2]
Among the many portraits that Cecilia Beaux painted of Leavitt family members were her New England Woman (Mrs. Jedediah H. Richards, née Julia Leavitt), and portraits of her grandmother Leavitt, Sarah Allibone Leavitt as well as Beaux's cousin, Charles Wellford Leavitt.[1]
