Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Livezey, Abraham, Dr.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Lower Makefield Township


   ABRAHAM LIVEZEY physician, P.O. Yardley, was born in 
Solebury township, September 15, 1821, and is a son of 
Robert and Sarah (Paxson) Livezey.  His paternal 
grandparents were Daniel and Margery (Croasdale) Livezey.  
Daniel was a son of Jonathan Livezey, who married Catherine 
Thomas, and Jonathan a son of Jonathan Livezey, originally 
from England, and who married Esther Eastburn, of Bristol 
township, Philadelphia county.  He was also a son of 
Jonathan.  Robert Livezey, the eldest son of Daniel, was 
born at Fox Chase, Philadelphia county, February 22, 1780, 
and in 1796 located in Solebury township, and resided there 
until his death in 1864.  His wife was a daughter of Abraham 
and Elizabeth (Brown) Paxson.  Abraham was a son of Thomas 
and Sarah (Harvey) Paxson.  Thomas was a son of Henry and 
Ann (Plumley) Paxson, and Henry was a son of James and Jane 
Paxson, from Bycot house, Oxfordshire, England, who settled 
in Bucks county in 1682.  Our subject was reared in Solebury 
and educated at the Attleboro' high school and at Princeton 
college, and was graduated in 1842, receiving the degree of 
A. B., and in 1845 the degree of A. M.  He entered Jefferson 
Medical college at Philadelphia in 1843, and was graduated 
in March, 1845.  He began the practice of his profession in 
Solebury, where he remained until 1850.  He was then elected 
professor of practice in the Female Medical college of 
Pennsylvania, and served in that capacity two years.  In the 
spring of 1852 he delivered a course of lectures on the 
practice of medicine, by appointment, in the New England 
Female Medical college, Boston.  He was then elected 
professor of practice in the Penn Medical college, which 
position he held for two years, giving two courses of 
lectures. He then resumed the practice of medicine at 
Solebury.  In 1865 he located in Philadelphia, practicing 
there until 1872, when he removed to Yardley, this county, 
where he has been in active practice ever since.  He was 
twice married.  His first wife was Marianna, daughter of 
Joseph and Mary (Paxson) Dilworth, by whom he had one son, 
Joseph D. (born October 8, 1851), now a practicing physician 
in Philadelphia, and a graduate of the University of 
Pennsylvania at the age of nineteen and a half years.  Dr. 
Livezey's second wife was Lydia S. Haines, of Medford, N. 
J., married November 27, 1873.  The doctor has contributed 
largely to various medical journals; written some temperance 
and other tales; and in 1871 established the "Mothers' 
Department" in Peterson's Ladies' Magazine, to which he has 
contributed regularly to date.  During the civil war he was 
a hired lecturer to fill vacancies in the chairs of surgery, 
practice and obstetrics in the University of Surgery and 
Medicine, Philadelphia.