Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Livesy, Thomas J. 1847 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

THOMAS J. LIVESY.

    Mr. Livesy is an educated gentleman and the largest land-owner and
stock-dealer in Pueblo County. Though of a retiring disposition .and no desire
to come into public notice, his wealth and large business transactions have made
him a noted and prominent man. He was born in Lancashire, England, November 16,
1847. He received his education at the English public schools, a preparatory
school for the army, and in Switzerland. An army life would have been his
chosen profession, but for circumstances transpiring which changed the whole
direction of his mind and brought him, in 1869, to Texas. After residing in
Texas a year, he returned to England to buy cotton, which, being a more
hazardous business than he cared to follow, was discontinued at the end of three
years, and another trip to America planned and made. A location to suit him was
not found, and he extended his journey to British Columbia, New Zealand and
Australia, and returned to England, to again come to America. He came to America
the third time, and bought steers on the Pan Handle, Texas, then settled in the
Arkansas Valley, ten miles above Pueblo, on the Goodnight and Cresswell
property, an eight thousand acre tract of farming and grazing land, which he and
his brother purchased, intending to raise beeves. Sheep proving more profitable,
they sold off much of all other stock, and now raise, buy and sell sheep. An
idea of the purchases and sales he makes can be formed when it is read that he
has constantly on his range from ten thousand to eighteen thousand sheep,
several thousand head of cattle, and buys and sells by the hundreds and
thousands. He sheared 50,000 pounds of wool last year and will increase the
amount next year.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

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

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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