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John Henry Livingston (1848–1927)

February 02, 2023

John Henry Livingston (July 8, 1848 – January 27, 1927)[1] was an American lawyer, proprietor of Clermont Manor, and prominent member of the Livingston family of New York.[2]

John Henry Livingston
Born(1848-07-08)July 8, 1848
Columbia County, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 27, 1927(1927-01-27) (aged 78)
Aiken, South Carolina, U.S.
Alma materColumbia College
Columbia Law School
Spouses
Catherine Livingston Hamersley
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(m. 1871; died 1873)​
Emily Evans
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(m. 1880; died 1894)​
Alice Delafield Clarkson
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(m. 1906)​
Parent(s)Clermont Livingston
Cornelia Livingston
RelativesSee Livingston family

Early life

Livingston was born on July 8, 1848, at Oakhill in Columbia County, New York. He was the only son of Clermont Livingston (1817–1895) and Cornelia Livingston (1824–1851), who were third cousins.[3][4] Among his siblings was Mary Livingston, who married Col. Frederic de Peyster, a son of Maj. Gen. John Watts de Peyster.[4][5] After his mother's death a short time after his birth, his father remarried to neighbor Mary Colden (née Swartout) Livingston.[2]

His paternal grandparents were Lieutenant Governor of New York Edward Philip Livingston and Elizabeth Stevens Livingston,[6] who was the eldest daughter of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston.[7] Livingston's father inherited Clermont Manor after the elder Livingston's death in 1843.[8] His grandfather's second wife, the former Mary Crooke Broom,[9] remarried to Judge Charles Herman Ruggles.[10][11]

Among his many cousins was Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson, namesake of Clarkson University,[12] Mary Livingston Ludlow,[13] the mother of Anna (née Hall) Roosevelt and grandmother of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.[4] He was also a first cousin of Catharine Goodhue Livingston,[14] Robert Robert Livingston,[15][16] Edward De Peyster Livingston,[17][18] and prominent architect Goodhue Livingston.[19]

Livingston was educated at home by a Danish tutor,[2] and then graduated from Columbia College in 1869, followed by Columbia Law School in 1871.[1]

Career and society life

 
Villa Guicciardini Corsi Salviati in Sesto Fiorentino.

After his father's death in 1895,[20] Clermont Manor was left to his twenty-two year old daughter Katherine, reportedly due to his father's dislike of John Henry's second wife Emily, who died in 1894. Livingston eventually bought Clermont from his daughter, reportedly for $1.[21]

Livingston served as President of the Colonial Lords of Manors in America and was an officer of the Society of the Cincinnati. He was also a member of the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, the St. Nicholas Society, the University Club and The Apawamis Club in Rye, New York.[1]

He spent many years abroad, including a residence at the Villa Guicciardini in Florence.[1]

Personal life

 
Livingston's living room at Clermont

On November 2, 1871, Livingston married Catherine Livingston Hamersley (1850–1873). Catherine was the sister of J. Hooker Hamersley, the daughter of John W. and Catherine Livingston (née Hooker) Hamersley, and granddaughter of Hon. James Hooker.[4] Together, they were the parents of one daughter:

  • Katharine Livingston Livingston (1873–1933), who married Lawrence Timpson (1865–1937) in 1900.[22]

After Catherine's death from complications from childbirth on April 19, 1873, he married Emily Evans on October 30, 1880. Emily was the daughter of William E. Evans and niece of Mrs. Gouverneur Ogden, in Philadelphia.[23] Livingston's best man at the wedding was Cadwalader E. Ogden of New York.[23]

Emily died "very suddenly" on April 7, 1894,[24] and Livingston married for the third and final time to Alice Delafield Clarkson (1872–1964), the daughter of Howard Clarkson, Esq., on November 9, 1906 at 58 West 37th Street in New York City.[25] Together, they were the parents of two daughters:[26]

  • Honoria Alice Livingston (1909–2000),[27] who married Reginald "Rex" McVitty in 1931.[28]
  • Janet Gloria Livingston (1910–1972),[a] who worked for the Chemical Trust Bank in New York and did not marry.[29]

Livingston died of influenza related illnesses at "The Bandbox", his winter residence in Aiken, South Carolina on January 27, 1927.[1]

Descendants

Through his eldest daughter, he was the grandfather of five, including Theodore Livingston Timpson (1901–1965), Katharine Livingston Timpson (1903–1993), Robert Clermont Livingston Timpson (1908–1988), who married Louise Campbell, Duchess of Argyll in 1954,[30] and was ousted from the New York Stock Exchange in 1963,[31][32] J. Alistar Livingston Timpson (1915–1997), and H. Rosamund Livingston Timpson (1915–2004).[33]

Notes

  1. ^ Janet is sometimes listed as "Janet Cornelia Livingston" rather than Janet Gloria Livingston.[29]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "JOHN H. LIVINGSTON DIES OF PNEUMONIA; Lawyer and Member of OId Knickerbocker Family -End Comes at His Aiken Home" (PDF). The New York Times. January 28, 1927. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Clermont State Historic Site: The Recollections of John Henry Livingston". Clermont State Historic Site. 15 May 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  3. ^ Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and his wife Catherine Van Brugh (about 1689-1756) were the great-great-grandparents of Clermont & Cornelia)
  4. ^ a b c d The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 1880. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Mrs. Susan de Peyster Livingston". The New York Times. 11 February 1910. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  6. ^ Livingston, Edwin Brockholst (1910). The Livingstons of Livingston Manor: Being the History of that Branch of the Scottish House of Callendar which Settled in the English Province of New York During the Reign of Charles the Second; and Also Including an Account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The Nephew," a Settler in the Same Province and His Principal Descendants. Knickerbocker Press. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  7. ^ Reynolds, Cuyler (1914). Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 1334. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  8. ^ Historical Notes of Saint James Parish, Hyde Park-on-Hudson, New York: In Commemoration of the Belated Centenary Anniversary of the Consecration of the First Parish Church, October 10, 1811. Hyde Park, New York: A.V. Haight Company. 1913. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  9. ^ "Mrs. Edward Philip Livingston (1804-1877)". nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  10. ^ Rosenblatt, Albert M. "New York Legal History / Antebellum, Civil War, & Reconstruction: 1847-1869 | CHARLES HERMAN RUGGLES 1789-1865 | Court of Appeals: 1847-1855 | Chief Judge: 1851-1853". www.courts.state.ny.us. Historical Society of the New York Courts. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  11. ^ Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ... Biographical Society. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  12. ^ "Obituary 1 -- No Title". The New York Times. 14 December 1898. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  13. ^ "DEATH OF EDWARD H. LUDLOW". The New York Times. 28 November 1884. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  14. ^ "MISS C.G. LIVINGSTON DEAD; ILL FOR YEARS; Member of a Noted Family Succumbs in Fifth Av. Home Where She Was Born". The New York Times. 18 December 1931. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  15. ^ "MRS. LIVINGSTON HOSTESS.; Gives a Dance for Her Son, R. R. Livingston, and Fiancee, Miss Dean". The New York Times. 17 February 1922. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  16. ^ "MRS. LIVINGSTON, 82, NURSERY ADVOCATE; Member of Noted Family Dies - Ex-Delegate Had Served on Democratic State Group". The New York Times. 19 October 1944. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  17. ^ Times, Special To The New York (14 April 1909). "TAILER-BROWN WEDDING.; Guests Gather at Baltimore for the Ceremony To-day". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  18. ^ "EDWARD LIVINGSTON DEAD AT FAMILY HOME; Was of Old and Distinguished New York AncestryuFu- neral Tomorrow". The New York Times. 20 January 1932. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  19. ^ Times, Special To The New York (4 June 1951). "G. LIVINGSTON DIES; LONG AN ARCHITECT; Practitioner Here for 50 Years Included Hayden Planetarium, Oregon Capitol in His Work". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  20. ^ "OBITUARY RECORD". The New York Times. 6 November 1895. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  21. ^ "Clermont State Historic Site: Searching for Emily Evans Livingston". Clermont State Historic Site. 18 March 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  22. ^ "MARRIED | TIMPSON--LIVINGSTON" (PDF). The New York Times. June 4, 1900. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  23. ^ a b "WEDDING IN PHILADELPHIA" (PDF). The New York Times. November 3, 1880. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  24. ^ "DIED" (PDF). The New York Times. April 10, 1894. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  25. ^ "MARRIED" (PDF). The New York Times. November 10, 1906. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  26. ^ "THE LIVINGSTONS - A CLAN'S STORY". The New York Times. July 27, 1981. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  27. ^ "Honoria Livingston McVitty". npg.si.edu. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  28. ^ "HONORIA LIVINGSTON HAS CHURCH BRIDAL; Descendant of a Declaration Signer Wed to Reginald L.M. McVitty. ON HISTORIC ANNIVERSARY Clermont, Home of Bride's Mother, Built 200 Years Ago by First Lord of Livingston Manor" (PDF). The New York Times. September 13, 1931. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  29. ^ a b "Miss Livingston". Poughkeepsie Journal. August 16, 1972. p. 45. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  30. ^ "DUCHESS WILL MARRY; Former Louise Clews, Robert Timpson to Wed Monday" (PDF). The New York Times. April 30, 1954. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  31. ^ "'Blue Blood' Is Ousted By Exchange". The Courier-Journal. 22 Feb 1963. p. 45. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  32. ^ "ELIZABETH HUTTON ENGAGED TO MARRY; Cincinnati Girl Will Become the Bride of R.C. L. Timpson of New York Next Month" (PDF). The New York Times. October 29, 1937. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  33. ^ Hasbrouck, Kenneth Edward (1974). The Hasbrouck Family in America, with European background. p. 44. ISBN 9780608319124. Retrieved 19 October 2018.

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John Henry Livingston July 8 1848 January 27 1927 1 was an American lawyer proprietor of Clermont Manor and prominent member of the Livingston family of New York 2 John Henry LivingstonBorn 1848 07 08 July 8 1848Columbia County New York U S DiedJanuary 27 1927 1927 01 27 aged 78 Aiken South Carolina U S Alma materColumbia CollegeColumbia Law SchoolSpousesCatherine Livingston Hamersley m 1871 died 1873 wbr Emily Evans m 1880 died 1894 wbr Alice Delafield Clarkson m 1906 wbr Parent s Clermont LivingstonCornelia LivingstonRelativesSee Livingston family Contents 1 Early life 2 Career and society life 3 Personal life 3 1 Descendants 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksEarly life Edit Clermont Manor 2007 Livingston was born on July 8 1848 at Oakhill in Columbia County New York He was the only son of Clermont Livingston 1817 1895 and Cornelia Livingston 1824 1851 who were third cousins 3 4 Among his siblings was Mary Livingston who married Col Frederic de Peyster a son of Maj Gen John Watts de Peyster 4 5 After his mother s death a short time after his birth his father remarried to neighbor Mary Colden nee Swartout Livingston 2 His paternal grandparents were Lieutenant Governor of New York Edward Philip Livingston and Elizabeth Stevens Livingston 6 who was the eldest daughter of Chancellor Robert R Livingston 7 Livingston s father inherited Clermont Manor after the elder Livingston s death in 1843 8 His grandfather s second wife the former Mary Crooke Broom 9 remarried to Judge Charles Herman Ruggles 10 11 Among his many cousins was Thomas Streatfeild Clarkson namesake of Clarkson University 12 Mary Livingston Ludlow 13 the mother of Anna nee Hall Roosevelt and grandmother of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt 4 He was also a first cousin of Catharine Goodhue Livingston 14 Robert Robert Livingston 15 16 Edward De Peyster Livingston 17 18 and prominent architect Goodhue Livingston 19 Livingston was educated at home by a Danish tutor 2 and then graduated from Columbia College in 1869 followed by Columbia Law School in 1871 1 Career and society life Edit Villa Guicciardini Corsi Salviati in Sesto Fiorentino After his father s death in 1895 20 Clermont Manor was left to his twenty two year old daughter Katherine reportedly due to his father s dislike of John Henry s second wife Emily who died in 1894 Livingston eventually bought Clermont from his daughter reportedly for 1 21 Livingston served as President of the Colonial Lords of Manors in America and was an officer of the Society of the Cincinnati He was also a member of the Sons of the Revolution the Society of Colonial Wars the St Nicholas Society the University Club and The Apawamis Club in Rye New York 1 He spent many years abroad including a residence at the Villa Guicciardini in Florence 1 Personal life Edit Livingston s living room at Clermont On November 2 1871 Livingston married Catherine Livingston Hamersley 1850 1873 Catherine was the sister of J Hooker Hamersley the daughter of John W and Catherine Livingston nee Hooker Hamersley and granddaughter of Hon James Hooker 4 Together they were the parents of one daughter Katharine Livingston Livingston 1873 1933 who married Lawrence Timpson 1865 1937 in 1900 22 After Catherine s death from complications from childbirth on April 19 1873 he married Emily Evans on October 30 1880 Emily was the daughter of William E Evans and niece of Mrs Gouverneur Ogden in Philadelphia 23 Livingston s best man at the wedding was Cadwalader E Ogden of New York 23 Emily died very suddenly on April 7 1894 24 and Livingston married for the third and final time to Alice Delafield Clarkson 1872 1964 the daughter of Howard Clarkson Esq on November 9 1906 at 58 West 37th Street in New York City 25 Together they were the parents of two daughters 26 Honoria Alice Livingston 1909 2000 27 who married Reginald Rex McVitty in 1931 28 Janet Gloria Livingston 1910 1972 a who worked for the Chemical Trust Bank in New York and did not marry 29 Livingston died of influenza related illnesses at The Bandbox his winter residence in Aiken South Carolina on January 27 1927 1 Descendants Edit Through his eldest daughter he was the grandfather of five including Theodore Livingston Timpson 1901 1965 Katharine Livingston Timpson 1903 1993 Robert Clermont Livingston Timpson 1908 1988 who married Louise Campbell Duchess of Argyll in 1954 30 and was ousted from the New York Stock Exchange in 1963 31 32 J Alistar Livingston Timpson 1915 1997 and H Rosamund Livingston Timpson 1915 2004 33 Notes Edit Janet is sometimes listed as Janet Cornelia Livingston rather than Janet Gloria Livingston 29 References Edit a b c d e JOHN H LIVINGSTON DIES OF PNEUMONIA Lawyer and Member of OId Knickerbocker Family End Comes at His Aiken Home PDF The New York Times January 28 1927 Retrieved 19 October 2018 a b c Clermont State Historic Site The Recollections of John Henry Livingston Clermont State Historic Site 15 May 2010 Retrieved 19 October 2018 Philip Livingston 1686 1749 and his wife Catherine Van Brugh about 1689 1756 were the great great grandparents of Clermont amp Cornelia a b c d The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 1880 Retrieved 18 April 2017 Mrs Susan de Peyster Livingston The New York Times 11 February 1910 Retrieved 6 June 2017 Livingston Edwin Brockholst 1910 The Livingstons of Livingston Manor Being the History of that Branch of the Scottish House of Callendar which Settled in the English Province of New York During the Reign of Charles the Second and Also Including an Account of Robert Livingston of Albany The Nephew a Settler in the Same Province and His Principal Descendants Knickerbocker Press Retrieved 18 April 2017 Reynolds Cuyler 1914 Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation Lewis Historical Publishing Company p 1334 Retrieved 30 September 2018 Historical Notes of Saint James Parish Hyde Park on Hudson New York In Commemoration of the Belated Centenary Anniversary of the Consecration of the First Parish Church October 10 1811 Hyde Park New York A V Haight Company 1913 Retrieved 18 April 2017 Mrs Edward Philip Livingston 1804 1877 nyhistory org New York Historical Society Retrieved 18 April 2017 Rosenblatt Albert M New York Legal History Antebellum Civil War amp Reconstruction 1847 1869 CHARLES HERMAN RUGGLES 1789 1865 Court of Appeals 1847 1855 Chief Judge 1851 1853 www courts state ny us Historical Society of the New York Courts Retrieved 18 April 2017 Johnson Rossiter Brown John Howard 1904 The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Biographical Society Retrieved 18 April 2017 Obituary 1 No Title The New York Times 14 December 1898 Retrieved 18 April 2017 DEATH OF EDWARD H LUDLOW The New York Times 28 November 1884 Retrieved 18 April 2017 MISS C G LIVINGSTON DEAD ILL FOR YEARS Member of a Noted Family Succumbs in Fifth Av Home Where She Was Born The New York Times 18 December 1931 Retrieved 6 June 2017 MRS LIVINGSTON HOSTESS Gives a Dance for Her Son R R Livingston and Fiancee Miss Dean The New York Times 17 February 1922 Retrieved 6 June 2017 MRS LIVINGSTON 82 NURSERY ADVOCATE Member of Noted Family Dies Ex Delegate Had Served on Democratic State Group The New York Times 19 October 1944 Retrieved 6 June 2017 Times Special To The New York 14 April 1909 TAILER BROWN WEDDING Guests Gather at Baltimore for the Ceremony To day The New York Times Retrieved 6 June 2017 EDWARD LIVINGSTON DEAD AT FAMILY HOME Was of Old and Distinguished New York AncestryuFu neral Tomorrow The New York Times 20 January 1932 Retrieved 6 June 2017 Times Special To The New York 4 June 1951 G LIVINGSTON DIES LONG AN ARCHITECT Practitioner Here for 50 Years Included Hayden Planetarium Oregon Capitol in His Work The New York Times Retrieved 6 June 2017 OBITUARY RECORD The New York Times 6 November 1895 Retrieved 18 April 2017 Clermont State Historic Site Searching for Emily Evans Livingston Clermont State Historic Site 18 March 2018 Retrieved 19 October 2018 MARRIED TIMPSON LIVINGSTON PDF The New York Times June 4 1900 Retrieved 19 October 2018 a b WEDDING IN PHILADELPHIA PDF The New York Times November 3 1880 Retrieved 19 October 2018 DIED PDF The New York Times April 10 1894 Retrieved 19 October 2018 MARRIED PDF The New York Times November 10 1906 Retrieved 19 October 2018 THE LIVINGSTONS A CLAN S STORY The New York Times July 27 1981 Retrieved 19 October 2018 Honoria Livingston McVitty npg si edu National Portrait Gallery Retrieved 19 October 2018 HONORIA LIVINGSTON HAS CHURCH BRIDAL Descendant of a Declaration Signer Wed to Reginald L M McVitty ON HISTORIC ANNIVERSARY Clermont Home of Bride s Mother Built 200 Years Ago by First Lord of Livingston Manor PDF The New York Times September 13 1931 Retrieved 19 October 2018 a b Miss Livingston Poughkeepsie Journal August 16 1972 p 45 Retrieved 19 October 2018 DUCHESS WILL MARRY Former Louise Clews Robert Timpson to Wed Monday PDF The New York Times April 30 1954 Retrieved 19 October 2018 Blue Blood Is Ousted By Exchange The Courier Journal 22 Feb 1963 p 45 Retrieved 19 October 2018 ELIZABETH HUTTON ENGAGED TO MARRY Cincinnati Girl Will Become the Bride of R C L Timpson of New York Next Month PDF The New York Times October 29 1937 Retrieved 19 October 2018 Hasbrouck Kenneth Edward 1974 The Hasbrouck Family in America with European background p 44 ISBN 9780608319124 Retrieved 19 October 2018 External links EditJohn Henry Livingston Papers 1910 1937 at the Franklin D Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title John Henry Livingston 1848 1927 amp oldid 1093450090, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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