BIO:  Robert C. Livingston, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Franklin Township, Pg 107

ROBERT C. LIVINGSTON was born in York County, Penn., in 1815, a son of William 
and Margaret (Cook) Livingston, of York and Cumberland Counties respectively, and 
of Scotch descent.  His grandfather came from Scotland in a very early day and 
settled in York County.  The father, a cooper by trade, followed farming in York 
County for many years, and died in 1846 at the age of sixty-eight years.  He had 
the following children:  James (deceased), Mary, William, Ellen (deceased).  
Robert C. Livingston was brought up on the farm until the age of eleven years, 
when he went to live with William Diven, Esq., with whom he remained until the 
age of twenty-one years.  During that time he learned the tanner’s trade, which 
he followed for thirty-one years in Adams County, Penn.  He owns about eighty-one 
acres of well cultivated land in Franklin Township, where he resides.  In 1838 he 
married Lydia Beles, daughter of Josiah Beles, of Adams County:  James, Caleb, 
Robert A. (deceased), Lorah M. (deceased), Mary E., Lydia J., Anna C., Margaret 
D. (deceased), Ida C. (deceased), and Fletcher (deceased), are the children born 
to this union.  Mr. Livingston is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and his 
wife a member of the Episcopal Church.  The eldest son, James, was a soldier in 
the late war, and their third son, Robert, died when in the service.