Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: meredith , new hampshire - caption: dudley leavitt , 1849 . new hampshire historical society - notableworks: leavitt 's farmers almanack - death date: 20 september 1851 - spouse: judith glidden - education: phillips exeter academy - portaldisp: y - birth date: 1772 - name: dudley leavitt - citizenship: american - nationality: american - image: dudley leavitt publisher.jpg - birth place: exeter , new hampshire - religion: congregationalist - occupation: teacher , mathematician , writer , publisher Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of dudley leavitt -lrb- publisher -rrb- .
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dudley leavitt -lrb- 1772 -- september 20 , 1851 -rrb- was an american publisher .he was an early graduate of phillips exeter academy in his native town of exeter , new hampshire , and later moved to gilmanton where he first edited a newspaper and taught school .within a few years , leavitt relocated to meredith , where in addition to teaching school and farming , he began publishing in 1797 '' leavitt 's farmers almanack '' , one of the nation 's earliest farmers ' almanacs .a polymath , leavitt poured his knowledge of disparate fields including mathematics , language and astronomy into the wildly popular almanacs , which outlived their creator , being published until 1896 .the inaugural issue of 1797 carried the title of '' the new england calendar : or , almanack for the year of our lord 1797 '' .on the cover was the disclaimer that the new publication was '' calculated for the meridian of concord , latitude 43 14 ' n. longitude 72 45 ' w. : and with but little variation will answer for any of the new england states . ''