LIVINGSTON, W. H., St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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W. H. LIVINGSTON, ST. MARTINVILLE.--Mr. Livingston was born in St. Martin
parish in 1854 and is the son of George and Caroline Livingston.  George
Livingston was a native of Ewson, Indiana; born 1829 and died 1864.  He moved
to Louisiana in 1844 and was engaged in what is known as "swamping," or
getting out cypress from the swamps of St. Martin parish.  He enlisted in the
Confederate army in 1862 and served for two years, but owing to physical
inability he was discharged.

The subject of this sketch received a limited education and has been engaged
in the timber business from the time of his boyhood until 1890, when he began
a mercantile business in St. Martinville.  He was married in 1887 to Miss
Louise Cozine.  To this union have been born six children, viz:  George H., 
Percy M.,  Charles G.,  Lilian,  John E.,  William E.  Mr. Livingston is a
member of the Episcopal church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 339. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.