Levi Hollingsworth (1765–1822), merchant, copper manufacturer, and public official, was born in Cecil County, Maryland. He sat for his home county in the Maryland House of Delegates, 1795–99, and represented the Western Shore in the state senate, 1811–16. A merchant in Baltimore from 1803, Hollingsworth also served for a time as a director of the Bank of Baltimore. He opened a copper-rolling mill about ten miles from town in 1804 and within less than a decade was annually refining and shaping one hundred tons of copper there. Under its later incarnation as the Gunpowder Copper works, Hollingsworth manufactured copper sheeting, sheathing for ship hulls, boiler plating, bolts, nails, and spikes. He died in Baltimore (William B. Hollingsworth, Hollingsworth Genealogical Memoranda in the United States, From 1682 to 1884 [1884], 18; Papenfuse, Maryland Public Officials description begins Edward C. Papenfuse and others, eds., An Historical List of Public Officials of Maryland, 1990– , 1 vol. description ends , 1:444; Cornelius William Stafford, The Baltimore Directory, for 1803 [Baltimore, (1803)], 67; Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser, 5 Dec. 1803; Board of World’s Fair Managers of Maryland, Maryland: Its Resources, Industries and Institutions [1893], 115; ASP, Finance, 2:602; Commercial Directory [Philadelphia, 1823], 71, 76; Baltimore Patriot & Mercantile Advertiser, 8 May 1819, 4 Sept. 1822).