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Source: Vol. II  pg.157  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

	GUY W. LIVINGSTON was for a number of years in railroad work as a
freight tariff clerk; but for the past seven years has devoted his experience
and abilities to the Miami Chamber of Commerce, of which he is managing
secretary.
	Under him the Chamber has become an organization of the widest
usefulness and public benefit. It represents a real service to every individual
and firm in the membership and to the city at large in providing a medium of
negotiation between Miami business and the railroads and other corporations.
Through the Chamber of Commerce large sums of money have been spent in
advertising the city and promoting its growth and expansion. For efficiency and
operation the work of the Chamber of Commerce is divided into the following
sections: Civic, Waterways, Legislation, Traffic, Industrial, Mercantile, Real
Estate, Agricultural, Publicity, Hotels, Conventions, Everglades, City Planning
and Beautifying.
	Mr. Livingston, the managing secretary, is a native of Battle Creek,
Michigan, where he was reared and educated. As a youth he entered railroad
service, becoming telegraph operator at Battle Creek. Later he was ticket
seller and station agent, and on leaving Battle Creek he was sent to Chicago,
where he became a compiler of freight tariffs with the Western Trunk Line
Committee. With a mind especially adapted, he made his experience an
opportunity for acquiring an expert knowledge of the complications and
adjustments of freight tariff, particularly freight rates on shipments for
export to foreign countries. He was engaged for several years in this work, and
his duties required extensive travel throughout the United States. Mr.
Livingston came to Florida in 1915, and for a short time was in the freight
tariff department of the Florida East Coast Railroad. Soon afterward he removed
to Miami and took charge of the freight bureau of the Miami Chamber of
Commerce, and since March, 1916, has been managing secretary of the chamber.


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