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Levitt Ellsworth Custer

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Name
  
Levitt Custer



Died
  
January 3, 1924, Dayton, Ohio, United States

Levitt Ellsworth Custer (June 18, 1863 - January 3, 1924) was an Ohio dentist and balloonist.

Biography

He was born on June 18, 1863 in Perrysville, Ohio to Isaac Newton Custer, a dentist. He attended the public schools in New Philadelphia, Ohio and Westerville, Ohio. He saved for college from 1878 to 1879 by playing the cornet with a river circus band that traveled from Cincinnati, Ohio to New Orleans, Louisiana. Then attended Otterbein University and graduated in 1884. He then attended the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 1885.

He married Effie Zimmerman, and had as his son, Levitt Luzern Custer.

He died on January 3, 1924.

References

Levitt Ellsworth Custer Wikipedia