Complex sentence: The father of Judge Leavitt was Rev. Jonathan Leavitt, a Yale graduate who was a Congregational minister in Greenfield, and his wife was Sarah Hooker, a great granddaughter ot the Rev. Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, Connecticut.
Split into simpler sentences: The father of Judge Leavitt was Rev. Jonathan Leavitt, a Yale graduate who was a Congregational minister in Greenfield. Rev. Leavitt's wife was Sarah Hooker, a great granddaughter ot the Rev. Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, Connecticut.