Livermore, Abiel Abbot – Livingston, William
Livermore, Abiel Abbot
clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 30, 1811, in Wilton, N. H. He was a unitarian clergyman who was president of the Theological seminary at Meadville, Pa., from 1863 until his death. He was the author of Lectures to Young Men; Discourses; Commentaries on the Gospels, Acts, Romans, Corinthians to Philemon, Hebrews to Revelations; The Marriage Offering; and History of Wilton, New Hampshire. He died in 1892.
Livermore, Arthur
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 26, 1776, in Londonderry, N. H. He was a judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire from 1799 to 1816; a presidential elector in 1801; and from 1825 to 1833 judge of the common pleas. He was a representative in congress from 1817 to 1821, and from 1823 to 1825. He died July 1, 1853, in Campton, N. H.
Livermore, Edward St. Loe
lawyer, congressman, was born April 5, 1762, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was United States circuit attorney, and judge of the state superior court from 1797 to 1799.
He was a representative in congress from 1807 to 1812. He removed to Boston, Mass., in 1813. He died Sept. 22, 1832, in Lowell, Mass.
Livermore, George
antiquarian, was born July 10, 1809, in Cambridge, Mass. He wrote for the newspapers and reviews on subjects of a bibliographical or historical character, his articles displaying extensive research. Among them may be mentioned one on the New England Primer, in the Cambridge Chronicle (1849), and another on Public Libraries in the North American Review. He died Aug. 30, 1865, in Cambridge, Mass.
Livermore, Mrs. Mary Ashton
[RICE], lecturer, author, was born Dec. 19, 1821, in Boston, Mass. She is a noted lecturer upon temperance and woman-suffrage whose home is in Melrose, Mass. She is the author of Superfluous Women, and Other Lectures; Pen Pictures; Thirty a Temperance Tale; Years Too Late:
What Shall we Do with Our Daughters?; and My Story of the War.
Livermore, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born May 14, 1732, in Waltham, Mass. He was judge advocate of the admiralty before the revolution; and subsequently judge of the superior court of New Hampshire. He was a senator in congress from 1793 to 1801, when he resigned; and was president pro tempore of that body during two sessions.
He died May 18, 1803, in Holderness, N. H.
Livermore, Samuel
lawyer, author, was born about 1786. He is a lawyer of New Orleans; and the author of Treatise on Law of Principal and Agent and Sales by Auction; and Contrariety of Laws of Different States and Nations. He died in 1833, in New Orleans, La.
Livingston, Ambrose Haydon
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 24, 1850, in Albany, Ky. He has been circuit attorney, prosecuting attorney; has attained success as a criminal lawyer and statesman; and has a lucrative practice at West Plains, Mo. He served with distinction as a member of the Missouri state legislature; was a delegate to the democratic national convention in 1884; and the P. P. national convention of 1896.
Livingston, Brockholst
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 26, 1757, in New York city. In 1802 he became judge of the supreme court of New York; and in 1806 was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died March 19, 1823, in Washington, D. C.
Livingston, Charles Ondis
manufacturer, was born Dec. 10, 1841, in Contoonville, N. H. He was the first man to bring an ice machine to Florida and produce ice by steam power.
Livingston, Edward
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born May 26, 1764, in Clermont, N. Y. He was a representative to congress from New York city in 1795- 1802; and was then appointed United States attorney for the district of New York, and was also mayor of the city.
He was elected a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1823 to 1829; was a senator of the United States from 1829 to 1831, when he was appointed secretary of state. In 1833 he was made minister to France. His Penal Code is considered a monument of his profound learning; and he also wrote Criminal Jurisprudence, and other works.
He died May 23, 1836, in Rhinebeck, N. Y.
Livingston, Henry Beekman
soldier, was born Nov. 9, 1750, in Clermont, N. Y. For his services in the capture of Chambly in 1775 he was voted a sword of honor by congress in December of that year. He died Nov. 5, 1831, in Rhinebeck, N. Y.
Livingston, Henry Walter
congressman, was born in 1768, in Livingston Manor, N. Y. In 1792 he was secretary to Mr. Morris, ambassador to France; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1803 to 1807. He died Dec. 22, 1810, in Livingston Manor, N. Y.
Livingston, John Henry
clergyman, was born May 30, 1746, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He came to New York in September, 1770, and at once entered on the active duties of his pastorate, having the North Dutch church at the corner of Fulton and William streets under his charge. He continued in this office until 1810. He died Jan. 20, 1825, in New Brunswick, N. J.
Livingston, John William
naval officer, was born May 22, 1804, in New York city. In 1824 he was appointed midshipman in the United States navy from New York, and served in the Mediterranean squadron during the war with the pirates. In 1862 he was made commodore; and in 1868 he was commissioned rear-admiral; and in 1874 placed on the retired list. He died Sept. 10, 1885, in New York city.
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.
Livingston, Philip
signer of the declaration of independence, was born Jan. 15, 1716, in Albany, N. Y. He was a successful merchant of New York city; and was an alderman for four years. He served several years in the state legislature. He was a delegate to congress from 1774 to 1778; and was a signer of the declaration of independence. He subsequently served in the senate of New York. He died June 12, 1778, in York, Pa.
Livingston, Robert Le Roy
soldier, congressman. He was a representative in congress from the sixth congressional district of New York from 1809 to 1813, but resigned in 1812. He was then appointed lieutenant-colonel of infantry.
Livingston, Robert R
lawyer, jurist, diplomat, congressman, author, was born Nov. 27, 1747. In 1775 he was elected to the assembly from Dutchess county, N.
Y.; the same year he was sent as a delegate to the continental congress, serving until 1777; and was member of the committee for draughting the declaration of independence. He was also a delegate from 1779 to 1781, and in the lata ter year was appointed secretary for foreign affairs. He was appointed chancellor of New York under the new constitution, and filled that office until 1801. In 1801 he accepted the appointment of minister to France. He introduced merino sheep and gypsum into New York. He published an oration delivered before the Cincinnati society in 1787, and Essays on Agriculture; and Essays on Sheep. He died Feb. 26, 1813, in Clermont, N. Y.
Livingston, Walter
congressman.
He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress in 1784 and 1785.
He died May 14, 1797, in New York city.
Livingston, William
congressman, governor, author, was born Nov. 30, 1723, in Albany, N. Y. In 1758 he was elected a member of the assembly. He purchased a tract of land in Elizabethtown, N. J.; built a house called Liberty Hall, and removed there in 1773, where he resided during the remainder of his life. He was elected a delegate to the continental congress in 1774; re-elected in 1775; and was recalled June 5 to command, as brigadiergeneral, the state militia. He succeeded William Franklin (deposed) as governor in 1776, and held the office until his death.
In 1787 he was a delegate to the constitutional convention. He was the author of a poem called Philosophical Solitude; and also Review of the Military Operations in North America; and Digest of the Laws of New York. He died July 25, 1780, in Elizabeth, N. J.