Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Livesy, James 1850 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

JAMES LIVESY, B. A.

    Owing to the difficulty of obtaining more particulars, this sketch of Mr.
Livesy's life is much shorter than it is wished it were, for the history in
detail of a gentleman of his pure tastes and delicacy would, it is believed, be
read with great interest by the perusers of this book. He is the son of a
wealthy cotton dealer of Blackburn, Lancashire, England, and was born March 15,
1850. He attended the public schools of Blackburn till 1867, and then, after
having been engaged a year and a half with his father at Uppingham in the cotton
business, he became a student of Cambridge University, and graduated in four
years, and had the degree of Bachelor of Arts conferred upon him. His father
desired him to make theology his profession, but having a strong love for
agricultural pursuits, he attended the agricultural college at Cirencester,
Gloucester, a year, with a view to making farming his calling in life, and came
to America, in 1875, in search of ground to farm. A six months' search in
Colorado, failing to find ground on which he wished to locate, he went to New
Zealand, but having learned that he could invest money in Colorado to better
advantage than there, he returned in 1876, and in partnership with his brother,
bought what is known as the Goodnight and Cresswell property, a large tract of
land ten miles from Pueblo, and has since been engaged in dealing in stock,
cattle, sheep and wool.


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Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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