Biography of John S. Livingston, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Livingston, Landers, Larkin, Taylor.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 294

John S. Livingston

Our subject is a native of Union Star, DeKalb county, Missouri, born April 19,
1858, the son of DeWitt C. and Mary E. (Landers) Livingston. He worked on his
father's farm until grown, enjoying the advantage of the local public school
for a short interval out of each year, and when the time arrived for him to
inaugurate independent action and to begin for himself the battle for life, he
engaged in farming on the place adjoining the parental homestead. He continued
to busy himself thus until 1889, in which year he emigrated to Baker county,
Oregon, located in the vicinity of Express, and resumed his farming and stock
raising. In 1890 he sold his farm, moved into town and engaged in the business
in which we now find him, namely that of a cigar and liquor merchant.

Mr. Livingston was married at Union Star, Missouri, on August 30, 1887, the
lady of his choice being Miss Lizzie, daughter of Meredith B. and Elizabeth
(Larkin) Taylor and to their union one child has been born, Alice May, at
present attending school in Express.

Mrs. Livingston's father was a "forty-niner" in California, but after
searching for gold there for several years, and finding some, he returned to
his home in Missouri, where her mother still lives.