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Livingston, Leonidas F

soldier, farmer, state senator, congressman, was born April 3, 1832, in Newton county, Ga.

He was a private soldier in the confederate army from 1861 to 1865. He was for two terms a member of the house of representatives; and one term a member of the state senate. He was chairman of the committee on agriculture in both the house and senate. He was vice-president of the Georgia State Agricultural society for eleven years and president of the same for four years; and was president of the Georgia alliance for three years. He was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

LIVINGSTON, MRS. MARGARET VERE [FARRINGTON], author, was born in 1863, in Maine. She is the author of Tales of King Arthur and His Knights; and Fra Lippo Lippi, a Romance of Florence.

LIVINGSTON, PETER VAN BRUGH, merchant, congressman, was born in October, 1710, in Albany, N. Y. He was a delegate to the first and second provincial congresses of New York in 1775-76, being president of the first congress. In 1776 he was made treasurer of the congress, and held that office for two years, also participating in all of the pre-revolutionary measures. He died Dec. 28, 1792, in Elizabethtown, N. J.