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A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931
SCHUYLER W. LIVINGSTON has to his credit more than a quarter of a century of
successful law practice in the City of Washington, judicial center of the
county of the same name, and he has appeared in connection with much important
litigation in the various courts of this section of his native state,
including the federal courts, while he has presented numerous cases before the Iowa
Supreme Court.
Mr. Livingston is senior member of the representative law firm of Livingston
& Eicher, with offices at 204 West Main Street, and the firm controls a
substantial and important law business. The Livingston family, of sterling
Scotch origin, was established in the State of New York many generations ago and
has figured worthily in the annals of the nation's history.
Schuyler W. Livingston was born at Ainsworth, Washington County, Iowa,
October 14, 1872, and has here won prestige in a profession that was signally
honored by the services of his father, his office at Washington, the county seat,
having been that now occupied by his son Schuyler W. The father, the late
William John Livingston, was born at Carroll, Ohio, and came with his parents
to Iowa in 1856, the family having gained pioneer prestige in Washington
County, where he was reared to manhood and received the advantages of the public
school of the period. From the University of Iowa he received the degree of
Civil Engineer, and in its law department he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1879. After thus receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws he was
engaged in the practice of his profession at Washington, this state, a few
years, and he also did important work as a civil engineer, including service as
surveyor for the Duluth & Winnipeg Railroad. He was one of the honored and
influential citizens of Washington at the time of his death, November 22,
1882, and his wife, whose maiden name was Eva E. McMillan, survived him more than
forty years, her death occurring May 31, 1927. Of the two children Schyler
W. of this review is the elder, and the younger, Ralph L, likewise resides at
Washington.
The public schools of Washington afforded Schuyler W. Livingston his early
education, and here he was graduated in Washington Academy in 1892. In the
meanwhile he had lived in the home and worked on the farm of Col. David J.
Palmer, he having been a lad of ten years at the time of his father's death. In
Monmouth College, at Monmouth, Illinois, he was graduated in 1895 and received
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, he having been a member of the Philomathian
Society of this college. After his return to Iowa he became superintendent
of the Gas Company at Centerville, in 1897. While retaining this position he
began reading law in the office of Mabry & Payne, a leading law firm at
Centerville,and in 1897 he went to Chicago, where he continued to be associated
with D. C. Campbell and T. P. Shontz until 1900, the while he there continued
his study of law, under the preceptorship of Judge D. F. Matchet. He was
admitted to the Illinois bar in 1900 and in the same year returned to Iowa and was
here admitted to practice. In 1901 he initiated his practice of law in the
office that had previously been occupied by his father at Washington, and
here he has since continued his professional activities, the scope and
importance of which mark him as one of the representative members of the bar of this
section of the hawkeye State. He has membership in the Washington County Bar
Association, Iowa State Bar Association, American Bar Association and the
American Law Institute, is a Republican in political allegiance and is an elder
in the Presbyterian Church of his home city, of which his wife likewise is a
zealous member. Mr. Livingston is vice president of the Commercial Savings
Bank of Washington and president of the Weber Engraving Company of Kansas
City, Missouri.
April 22, 1897, recorded the marriage of Mr. Livingston to Miss Alice
Sampson, of Washington, and they have four children: David Palmer Livingston is
associated with the Meredith Publishing Company in the City of Chicago. Mrs.
Alice Louise Voorhis is a resident of San Dimas, California. Schuyler W., Jr.,
graduated from the Harvard Law School in June, 1929, and is now associated
with the firm of Murray Aldrich & Webb, of New York City. Miss Eva Margaret is
a student at Scripps School for Girls at Claremont, California.
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