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Source: Vol. II  pg.100-101  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        S. E. LIVINGSTON. While connected with the Florida East Coast Railway 
Mr. Livingston’s duties required his presence on the site of the present town
of Homestead in Dade County. The railway construction work being completed he
determined to remain there and throw in his lot with the little community,
engaged in merchandising, and in later years has built up a large and
flourishing business and at all times has been one of the really constructive
leaders of the community. He is the present mayor of Homestead, and is also a
member of the County Board of Public Instruction.
	Mr. Livingston was born near Woodford in Orangeburg County, South 
Carolina, in 1879. He was reared on a farm in his native state, attending 
school at Woodford and at North. As a young man of nineteen he volunteered for 
service at the time of the Spanish-American war, and was in Company I of the
First South Carolina Regiment, commanded by Col. JOSEPH K. ALSTON. A few years 
later, in 1903, Mr. Livingston came to Florida. The first year was spent at
Crystal River in Citrus County, and after that he was at Plant City until 1909.
	The year 1909 brought him to Dade County and to the locality now known
as Homestead. He was then timekeeper and bookkeeper in the auditing department
of the Key West extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, under W. J. KROME.
This road was then under construction from Miami to Key West. The headquarters
of the department had been established at the site of Homestead, though there 
was no town yet started. Mr. Livingston is one of the very few whose duties
brought him here to remain and identify their fortunes permanently with
Homestead.
	After leaving the railroad company Mr. Livingston helped organize the
Homestead Mercantile Company, of which W. D. HORNE was president, with Mr.
Livingston as secretary and treasurer. In later years he organized the
cooperative mercantile company of which he is president. This is one of the
large and successful mercantile houses of Homestead. In addition to this
business Mr. Livingston has made a somewhat notable success as a tomato grower.
He put in his first crop of tomatoes in 1912. His farm of twenty acres lies
east of Homestead, and tomatoes are the chief crop. He has other valuable
country and city property.
	Mr. Livingston was the first city clerk and tax assessor of Homestead. 
He took office at the date of the incorporation of the town, on January 27, 
1913. The population of Homestead at that time was sixty-five, twenty-seven of
whom were registered voters. In January, 1922, he was elected mayor of
Homestead. At the democratic primaries of June, 1922, he was nominated for the
County Board of Public Instruction of Dade County. As the facts briefly related
would indicate, Mr. Livingston at all times has been a leader in civic and
business affairs, and has helped to make Homestead famous as one of the best
towns of its size in Florida.
	Mr. Livingston is a past master of Royal Palm Lodge No. 100, F. and A.
M., is a member of Dade Royal Arch Chapter No. 47, also a member of Cyrene
Knights Templars No. 13, of Miami, and is a member of Homestead Lodge No. 29,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Miss MINNIE TYLER, and they have
two daughters, ESTHER and HELEN.


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