Emma Leavitt-Morgan

Emma Leavitt-Morgan

Leavitt-Morgan (right) with Mabel Cahill
Country (sports)	United States
Born	(1865-05-22)May 22, 1865 Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	December 29, 1956(1956-12-29) (aged 91) New York, U.S.
Plays	Left-handed [1]
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
US Open	W (1891)

Emma Leavitt-Morgan (née Leavitt; May 22, 1865 – December 29, 1956) was an American tennis and golf player, often listed as Mrs. W. Fellowes-Morgan.

Biography

Mary Emma Leavitt was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the daughter of Henry Sheldon Leavitt and Martha Ann Young Leavitt. She was married to William Fellowes Morgan, Sr. in 1885. They had three children. Their daughters were Polly and Beatrice. Their son was William Fellowes Morgan Jr.^[2]

She died in 1956, aged 91 years. Her gravesite is in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Emma Leavitt-Morgan, from a 1901 publication.

Sports

With Mabel Cahill, Emma Leavitt-Morgan won, in 1891, the third women's doubles of the American National Championships, what is now the US Open. She was also a golfer, a member of the Baltusrol Golf Club.^[3]

Grand Slam finals

Doubles (1 title)

Result	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1891	US National Championships	Grass	[a] Mabel Cahill	Grace Roosevelt Ellen Roosevelt	2–6, 8–6, 6–4

Notes

1. At this time, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom.

References

1. Joan N. Burstyn, ed. (1997). Past and Promise : Lives of New Jersey Women (1st Syracuse University Press ed.). Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0815604181.
2. Reynolds, Cuyler (1914). Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 1212-1213. Emma Leavitt Morgan.
3. Underhill, Ruth; Hoyt, Beatrix (1903). The Book of Sport. J.F. Taylor & Company. p. 28.

External links

• An 1883 portrait of Emma Leavitt, in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.