Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Livermore, Lot August 11, 1835 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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LOT LIVERMORE
	One of the best known men in Umatilla county, having been one of the 
earliest pioneers, intimately connected in all the county affairs and those of 
the city of Pendleton also, being in public life almost continuously since the 
sixties, possessed of intrepidity and ability of a high order, the man whose 
name initiates this paragraph holds a prominence second to none in the county, 
while he had never lacked for the approbation of the people in their 
franchises whenever he would allow his name to be put forward for any 
political trust.  An epitome of his career will be read with interest by every 
citizen of our county, and it is a matter of regret that space forbids more of 
the engaging details.
	Marietta, Ohio, is his native place, and August 11, 1835, the date of 
his birth.  When but a few months of age his parents removed to Pittsfield, 
Illinois, being early pioneers there.  Here our subject received the mental 
training to be had in the public schools until 1851, when his father removed 
with his family across the plains with ox-teams.  Near the American Falls the 
train had a pitched battle with the Indians, who were driven off without loss 
to the immigrants.  Arriving in the Willamette valley in September 23, 1851, 
Mr. Livermore settled on a donation claim of three hundred and twenty acres on 
La Creole creek in Polk county. Here our subject remained for fourteen years, 
assisting on the farm, and then took a position in a general merchandise 
store, having by industry supplemented his education during his stay in this 
state.  After two years spent in this position he went into the wagon 
manufacturing business, remaining at that until 1864, and then sold out and 
went to Portland, again entering the general merchan- dise business.  For 
fourteen months he continued here, and then came for his employers to Umatilla 
Landing to operate a branch house.  In August of the next year he purchased an 
interest in the business and continued to operate there until 1869.  In that 
year he came to Pendleton and opened a general store for himself, where he did 
a prosperous business until 1878, when he joined the fighting forces to repel 
the attacks of the Indians.  In 1873 he was appointed postmaster at Pendleton 
by John A. J. Cresswell, under U. S. Grant.  This position he held 
continuously until 1887, also acting as agent for the Wells Fargo Express 
Company.  In 1875 this company was robbed of five thousand dollars between 
Umatilla and Pendleton.  Aided by another man, Mr. Livermore trailed the 
robbers, capturing them and all their booty, and later secured their 
conviction for ten years in the penitentiary.  He again took up a mercantile 
life after resigning the postoffice, which he later changed for real estate 
and insurance, which he had followed continuously since.  In 1900 he was 
appointed librarian for the Commercial Association, attending to this business 
with his other affairs. 
     On September 21, 1885, he was married to Mrs. Ellen Switzler, a native of 
Pendleton, to whom have been born three children: Lotta L., Clinton R. and 
Lynwood H.  All of them are in school in Pendleton.  He is affiliated with the 
Masonic fraternity in Lodge No. 52, of Pendleton, also with Eureka Lodge, No. 
23, I. O. O. F., of this city.  He has been connected with this latter society 
for forty years, having joined the first lodge in the state, Chemeketa, No. 1, 
at Salem.  He had passed through all of its chairs, and several times 
represented the home lodge in the grand lodge.  He has served three times as 
city councilman and two as mayor, being the first and second mayor of the 
city, and for one term as county treasurer.  With a clean record, a life of 
energy and usefulness, and unimpeachable reputation for honesty and 
straightforwardness, which is justly bestowed as the result of his 
faithfulness, Mr. Livermore is esteemed and confided in by all.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W.S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.   W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902

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