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


   ELIAS LIVEZEY real estate dealer, Baltimore, Md., is the 
youngest but one of the sons of Robert and Sarah Livezey.  
He was born on the farm near Lumberville, June 3, 1819.  He 
began his mercantile career when 14 years old, first with 
his brother Cyrus at Lumberville, then with his uncle at 
Attleboro, and later with Plumley and Ely at the same place. 
 When 20 years of age he began for himself in a store at 
Centerville, Buckingham township.  Two years later he took 
his brother's store at Lumberville, which he successfully 
carried on for three years, when, on his marriage, he 
removed to Attleboro, buying out the business and real 
estate of the former firm of Plumley & Ely.  Here he did a 
flourishing trade for ten years; then sold and removed to 
Philadelphia; but not finding a satisfactory opening he 
accepted, a year later, the position of secretary and 
treasurer of the London Park Cemetery company (in which he 
had a large interest, and was one of the incorporators); 
5000 Union and a large number of Confederate soldiers now 
rest in this cemetery.  He removed to Baltimore, where he 
has since resided.  He gradually got into the real estate 
business, in which he has since been actively engaged, 
building up a large and prosperous trade.  In 1841 he was 
married to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Rachel Elton, 
formerly of Philadelphia.  Three of their children are 
deceased; Thomas Elton, Elton Paxson and George Gillingham.  
Three are now living:  Francis B., farmer in Howard county, 
Md.; Elizabeth Catherine, wife of Bernard N. Baker, a 
prominent shipping merchant of Baltimore; and Josephine, 
living with her parents.  Mr. Livezey is a straightforward, 
outspoken man, and during the darkest days of our civil war 
used all his force and influence to keep Maryland loyal to 
the Union.  In politics he is an ardent republican, and he 
is in every way a worthy son of old Bucks county.