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Edward De Peyster Livingston

Edward De Peyster Livingston

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Edward De Peyster Livingston (March 6, 1861 – January 19, 1932) was an American lawyer and society leader during the Gilded Age.

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Early life

Livingston was born in New York City on March 6, 1861.[1] He was the second son of four children born to Robert Edward Livingston (1820–1889) and Susan Maria Clarkson (née De Peyster) Livingston (1823–1910).[2][3] His siblings included Catherine Goodhue Livingston,[4] Robert Reginald Livingston, who married Mary Tailer,[5][6][7] and Goodhue Livingston,[2] an architect with Trowbridge & Livingston who designed the Hayden Planetarium.[8]

His paternal grandparents were Edward Philip Livingston, the New York State Senator and 11th Lt. Gov. of New York who was master of Clermont Manor, and Elizabeth Stevens Livingston, the eldest daughter of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston. His maternal grandparents were James Ferguson De Peyster and Susan Maria (née Clarkson) De Peyster, who died in 1823 shortly after his mother's birth.[9] His uncle was Gen. Frederic James de Peyster. His maternal grandmother was the daughter of Gen. Matthew Clarkson and sister of Mary Rutherfurd Clarkson, the wife of Peter Augustus Jay.[9]

Livingston graduated from Columbia University in 1882,[2] and Columbia Law School in 1884.[10][11]

Career

After graduating from law school, where he was a member of Delta Psi,[12] Livingston practiced law at 156 Broadway in New York.[10]

Society life

In 1892, Livingston was included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.[13] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.[14] From 1896 until 1917, Livingston was a vestryman of St. Paul's Church in Tivoli, New York.[15] He was a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Calumet Club, the Tuxedo Club, the St. Anthony Club, the St. Nicholas Society, and the Society of Colonial Wars.[10]

Personal life

Livingston, who did not marry, lived at his father's Hudson River estate, "Northwood" in Clermont, New York,[16] and in New York City at 271 Fifth Avenue, the former home of his mother,[3] which he shared with his unmarried sister Catherine.[4] He died at his home in New York on January 19, 1932.[17]

References

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    The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 1880. p. 155. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  2. [2]
    Times, Special To The New York (4 June 1951). "G. LIVINGSTON DIES; LONG AN ARCHITECT; Practitioner Here for 50 Years Included Hayden Planetarium, Oregon Capitol in His Work". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
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    "Mrs. Susan de Peyster Livingston" (PDF). The New York Times. 11 February 1910. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
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    "MISS C.G. LIVINGSTON DEAD; ILL FOR YEARS; Member of a Noted Family Succumbs in Fifth Av. Home Where She Was Born" (PDF). The New York Times. 18 December 1931. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
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    Times, Special To The New York (14 April 1909). "TAILER-BROWN WEDDING.; Guests Gather at Baltimore for the Ceremony To-day". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
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    "MRS. LIVINGSTON HOSTESS.; Gives a Dance for Her Son, R. R. Livingston, and Fiancee, Miss Dean". The New York Times. 17 February 1922. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
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    "MRS. LIVINGSTON, 82, NURSERY ADVOCATE; Member of Noted Family Dies - Ex-Delegate Had Served on Democratic State Group". The New York Times. 19 October 1944. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  8. [8]
    Trowbridge, Francis Bacon (1908). The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America. Vol. 1. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. pp. 608–609. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
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    Livingston, Edwin Brockholst (1910). The Livingstons of Livingston Manor: Being the History of that Branch of the Scottish House of Callendar which Settled in the English Province of New York During the Reign of Charles the Second; and Also Including an Account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The Nephew," a Settler in the Same Province and His Principal Descendants. Knickerbocker Press. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
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    Reynolds, Cuyler (1914). Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 1333. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
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    Officers and Graduates of Columbia College: Originally the College of the Province of New York Known as King's College. General Catalogue, 1754-1894. Columbia University. 1894. p. 496. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
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    Catalogue of the Members of the Fraternity of Delta Psi. Fraternity of Delta Psi. 1889. p. 25. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
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    McAllister, Ward (16 February 1892). "THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED | WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
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    Keister, Lisa A. (2005). Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way. Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780521536677. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  15. [15]
    Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society. The Dutchess County Historical Society. 1928. p. 57. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  16. [16]
    "The Clermont Estate | Town of Clermont". www.clermontny.org. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  17. [17]
    "EDWARD LIVINGSTON DEAD AT FAMILY HOME; Was of Old and Distinguished New York Ancestry Funeral Tomorrow" (PDF). The New York Times. 20 January 1932. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
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