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Source: Vol. II  pg.128  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        A. R. LIVINGSTON is a civil engineer by profession, came to Florida to
join the engineering department of the Florida East Coast Railroad, and now has
charge of the business of the Model Land Company of South Florida, with
headquarters at Homestead, in Dade County.
	Mr. Livingston was born at Camden, New Jersey, in 1874. He is a
descendent of the distinguished Livingston family, many of whose members were
makers of history in Colonial, Revolutionary and still later times. The founder
of the American family was a Scotchman, ROBERT LIVINGSTON, who settled at
Albany, New York, in 1675. Dictionaries of American biography give a large
amount of space to this ROBERT LIVINGSTON and to many of his descendants. His
grandson, PHILIP LIVINGSTON, was one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence, but others were not less eminent.
	When A. R. LIVINGSTON was about nine years of age his parents, in 1883, 
moved to Barton County, Kansas, where his father engaged in the cattle 
industry, owning a large ranch a few miles from Great Bend. In that Western 
country A. R. LIVINGSTON was reared, had a public school education, and 
attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence, where he specialized in 
engineering. His home was in Kansas until 1913, when he came to Florida to 
become associated with the engineering department of the East Coast Railroad. 
In 1914 he established his headquarters at Miami, and soon afterward was given 
charge of the affairs of the Model Land Company in extreme South Florida. The 
Model Land Company is the land department of the East Coast Railroad, its 
president being J. A. INGRAHAM, who is vice president of the railroad system 
and is the state’s most distinguished railroad builder and developer.
	Mr. Livingston has charge of the business affairs of the Land Company,
including sales, survey of land in all engineering projects, embracing the
building of roads, bridges and drainage canals. He has been especially active
in the building of the highway from Homestead into the Cape Sable country. For
this project Special Road and Bridge District No. 1 was created. The Model Land
Company built at its own expense the entire stretch of this road from the Dade
County line through Monroe County to Cape Sable.
	Evidently Mr. Livingston has a very busy program, but a number of his
friends are acquainted with his interesting side line and avocation as an
artistic photographer. His extensive collection of photographs is, in fact,
valuable not only from the artistic, but historic standpoint. It contains
photographs of tropical scenes in extreme South Florida, particularly the Cape
Sable country, and also many photographs of scenes taken both before and after
the development of lands in the construction of buildings in towns. Mr.
Livingston is an amateur who has gone into photography not only as a technical
study, but as an art, and many of the photographs in his collection have been
colored to represent the natural appearance of tropical plants and foliage. Mr.
Livingston is a Knight Templar, Mason and Shriner, and is present high priest
of the Royal Arch Chapter of Homestead.


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