Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Livingston, J. C. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 February 7, 2009, 11:46 am Author: Hardin & Willard Livingston, J. C, Little Falls, a leading lumber dealer of Herkimer county, is a native of Columbia county, N. Y. He was formerly located in New York city, but eight years ago came to Little Falls to reside, and built a mill at Stratford back in the timber region of the county. Here he gives employment to a force of men ranging from forty to one hundred in number according to the season. He comes of an old and honorable American family, some of his ancestors participating in the Revolutionary War, while Senator John Livingston, embassador to France under President Taylor, was his granduncle. His ancestors had a large grant of land on the Hudson and one of them was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He lives on Garden street in the old residence of Judge Benton. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/livingst890gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb