Biographies from Historical and Biographical Annals by Morton Montgomery

LINDENMUTH, ANSON WILLIAM
(REV)

p. 1646

Surnames: LINDENMUTH, KAUFFMANN, REED, NOECKER, GESCHWIND,
OSENBACH, MILLER, HINKEL, KETNER, ALTHOUSE, MARBERGER, RENTSCHLER,
WINTERS, HORNING, STOUDT, LEIBENSPERGER, MOLL

Rev. Anson William Lindenmuth, pastor of St. Paul’s Evangelical
Lutheran Congregation, comprising the Amityville-Friedensburg
parish, is one of the younger of the successful ministers of his
faith in this part of the State. He was born in Upper Bern (now
Tilden) township, near Hamburg, Berks county, May 30, 1874, son of
Joseph and Sarah (Kauffman) Lindenmuth.
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The Lindenmuth family has long resided in Berks county, and its
members have been characterized by industry and honesty,
conscientious fidelity to duty, and untiring labor in religious and
public life.

(I) Michael Lindenmuth came from the German Palatinate to America,
qualifying at Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 1752. Soon thereafter it
appears that he located in Windsor township, Berks county. In 1790
he settled in that part of Bern township, now Tilden. In the
Pennsylvania Archives his name is given as Johan Michael, and on
his tombstone it is John Michael, while in the Federal Government
records of the Revolutionary war he is referred to as Colonel
Michael. He was a leading figure in Berks county in the struggle
for independence. On May 6, 1780, he addressed a letter to the
council in reference to the murder of some of the inhabitants
beyond the Blue Mountain, and the moving of certain families to the
Little Schuylkill. He asked for arms from the stores at Reading for
self defense. On the 10th, President Reed replied, stating that he
had directed Colonel Morgan to supply the necessary arms. Michael
Lindenmuth was Colonel of the 4th Battalion of Berks county
militia. By the following action of the Supreme Executive Council,
Dec. 31, 1778, it would appear that Col. Michael Lindenmuth and his
Battalion were in active service outside of the county: “Ordered
that the Secretary write to the Lieutenant of Berks County to call
upon Colonel Lindenmuth or his Lieutenant-Colonel, stationed last
summer at Fort Jenkins, in Northumberland, for five rifles taken
from one Webb, charged with disaffection.” In the Stoever records
of marriage in western Berks county is found that on June 17, 1760,
Michael Lindenmuth married Maria Eva Noecker. In the will of Martin
Noecker (see Pennsylvania Historical Society, Book 365, Page 521)
is this item: “To the children of Michael and Magdalena Lindenmuth,
the children of my deceased daughter Eve, deceased wife of Michael
Lindenmuth,” whence it would appear that Magdalena was his second
wife. In the will of Margaret, widow of Eberhart Geschwind, of Bern
township, is this reference: “I give and bequeath unto my daughter
Catharine, wife of Michael Lindenmuth,” who apparently was the
third wife of Michael Lindenmuth. The number of his children is not
known, but by his wife Catharine he had a son John Jacob, mentioned
below. In a diary left by Colonel Lindenmuth (but subsequently
destroyed by his children) it was stated that the Government owed
him a large sum of money which he advanced the commissary
department, and for services of himself and men. While enroute to
Washington for settlement he died at Baltimore. The delay in the
settlement had ruined him financially.

(II) John Jacob Lindenmuth was born Aug. 24, 1766, and died Sept.
17, 1839. His wife, Catharine, was born Nov. 22, 1768, and died
April 17, 1852, and both are buried at Hamburg. His tombstone
inscription says he was the father of sixteen children. Among these
were: John; Thomas, who moved West; George, who was killed in the
stone quarry at Bern Station; and Samuel, who died in 1870, at his
home in Stouchsburg, the father of Sarah, Catharine, Mary, Lydia,
Samuel (who had daughter Agnes), Nathaniel, Elizabeth and John.

(III) John Lindenmuth, son of John Jacob and Catharine, was born in
the vicinity of Harrisburg, Aug. 6, 1788, and died Sept. 3, 1852,
and is buried at St. Michael’s Church. He was employed at farm
labor in what is now Tilden township. He married Catharine Osenbach
(born Dec. 16, 1792, died Sept. 15, 1877) and their children were:
John, Joseph, Emanuel, Levi, Hettie, who married Benneville Miller;
Elizabeth, who married George Hinkel; Matilda, of Hamburg, widow of
Isaac Ketner; Sarah, who married Daniel Althouse, and lives in
Mohrsville; and Sallie and Jacob, who both died in infancy.

(IV) Joseph Lindenmuth, son of John and Catharine (Osenbach), was
born in Upper Bern (now Tilden) township, Feb. 7, 1825, and died
upon his farm in the same township, June 25, 1904. By trade he was
a shoemaker and he followed that as an occupation until 1892, after
which he devoted his entire time to farming, which he followed
before on a small scale in connection with his trade. He lived
first near St. Michael’s Church, and then moved to a place one mile
north of Wagner’s Hotel. After 1892 he lived on his farm of 114
acres near St. Michael’s Church. He was prosperous, and well-known
in his township. Mr. Lindenmuth was twice married. By his first
wife, Caroline Marberger (1830-1855), he had a son who died when a
child. He married (second) Sarah Kauffmann, daughter of Joseph and
Sarah (Rentschler) Kauffmann, of Tilden township. Their children
were: Elmira (m. Samuel Winters, of Kutztown); Mary Matilda (m.
Henry W. Horning, of Reading); Amelia (m. Eusebius Miller, of
Shoemakersville); Franklin K., of Tilden township; Alma Fayetta (m.
George Stoudt, of Shartlesville); Rev. Anson William; and Katie,
who died in infancy.

(V) Rev. Anson W. Lindenmuth passed his early days on his father’s
farm, being there trained in the lessons of industry and integrity
that have been such factors in the success of his later years. In
the public schools he early showed his love of learning, and before
he was fifteen had passed an examination for a teacher’s
certificate. At the age of seventeen he was granted a certificate
to teach, and was elected to Fisher’s school at Bern Station. The
following term he taught Miller’s school, and then Dunkel’s, all in
the same township, after which he went to Lancaster county, and
taught two terms. In the spring of 1894, he enrolled at the
Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, but the following winter
again engaged in teaching. In spring of 1895 he again entered the
Normal, and was admitted to the senior class, graduating in the
spring of 1896. For two terms after his graduation he taught at
Pleasant Hill, Lancaster county. During the last year he spent in
teaching in Lancaster county, he studied Greek and Latin under the
Rev. A. W. Leibensperger, now associate pastor of Salem Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Lebanon. This completed his preparation for
college, and in the fall of 1898 he entered Muhlenberg College,
graduating with first honors in 1902, and being duly assigned the
valedictory oration. He won the Amos Ettinger honor medal – a gold
star containing the monogram of Muhlenberg College, pendant from a
bar inscribed “Amos Ettinger Honor.” The Professor of German
presented him with a thirty-volume set of the German classics for
his meritorious work in that department.

In the fall of 1902 Mr. Lindenmuth entered the
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, and
graduated June 13, 1905. During the spring of 1903 he was absent on
leave to act as teacher of Latin and Greek in the Keystone State
Normal School. His ordination took place in Holy Trinity Church,
Lancaster, June 19, 1905.

In June, 1904, a year before his graduation from
the Theological Seminary, he became supply pastor and instructor of
the catechetical class of St. Paul’s Evangelical Church at
Amityville, supplying all the pulpits in the parish. This led to
his election to the call, and took charge on June 25th following.

On June 17, 1896, the Rev. Mr. Lindermuth was
married to Lizzie S. Moll, daughter of the late Daniel Moll, former
owner of the Strausstown Carriage Works. Four children have come to
bless this union, one of whom, Ruth, has entered into rest. The
others are Marian, Luther Moll and Anson W., Jr.

Both the Rev. Mr. Lindermuth and his wife are
popular in the parish, where their devotion to the people and their
sincerity and truth are well known.

LINDERMAN, GEORGE K.

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806

Surnames: LINDERMAN/VON LINDERMAN, RIDGE, PETERS, LLOYD, MILLER,
SLIPP, ESPENSHADE, ROBERTS, SWAVELY

George K. Linderman, ex-county commissioner of Berks county, Pa.,
who is now residing on his fine farm in Robeson township, was born
in Union township, Berks county, in 1846, son of William and Mary
Ann (Lloyd) Linderman, grandson of John and Mary (Ridge) Linderman,
and great-grandson of Conrad and Martha (Peters) Linderman.

The Linderman family is one of the oldest upon
record in Pennsylvania, it being recorded that Jacob Von Linderman
came to America in 1710 with his two sons, Henry and Samuel, and
settled in Ulster county, N. Y. Samuel Linderman, from whom George
K. is descended, had one son John, and two daughters, Mary and
Elizabeth.

John Linderman, son of Samuel, married, and
among his children were two sons, Conrad and Frederick, both of
whom served in the Revolutionary war, the latter holding the rank
of sergeant.

Conrad Linderman, great-grandfather of George
K., removed from Montgomery county, Pa., in 1780, and settled in
Douglas township, Berks county, where he purchased a small property
and this he cultivated all of his active period. He died in 1841,
at the age of sixty-six years. He and his wife had eleven children,
as follows: Isaac, Frederick, John, Elizabeth, Jacob, Sarah,
Mondeleana, Richard, Margrette, Mary and Conrad. In religious
belief the family were first Lutherans, but later became connected
with the Reformed Church.

John Linderman, grandfather of George K., was
born in Montgomery county, Pa., and later removed with his parents
to Douglass township, where he resided until 1805, when he moved to
Union township, and there the rest of his life was spent in weaving
and farming, the former occupation having been carried on in the
family as far back as records show. Mr. Linderman died in 1854, at
the age of seventy-two years, and his wife died in 1862, when
seventy-eight years old. They were the parents of these children:
Conrad, William, Martha, Frederick, Jacob and John. In religious
belief the family were Reformed. John Linderman served as a soldier
in the war of 1812-14.

William Linderman, father of George K., was born
in Union township in 1804, and spent his whole life engaged in
weaving and farming there. He married, in 1828, Mary Ann Lloyd, and
they became the parents of seven children: Samuel, Mary (m. B. F.
Miller); Catherine (m. William Slipp); Elizabeth (m. (first) T. J.
Espenshade and (second) Benjamin Roberts); George K.; and two died
in infancy. In religious belief the family is connected with the
Reformed Church. In political matters Mr. Linderman was a Democrat,
and held a number of township offices.

George K. Linderman was educated in the common
schools of Union township, and the grammar school at Reading, after
leaving which he was engaged in Esterly & Bro.’s wholesale
grocery for two years. He then connected himself with the
Wilmington & Northern Railroad, as conductor, and remained with
the company from 1870 until 1874, losing his left leg in their
service, after which he was put in charge of the Wilmington &
Northern freight house at Coatesville. In 1874 he purchased the old
homestead in Robeson township, where he has since devoted his time
to farming and weaving. At one time Mr. Linderman was an extensive
breeder of fine poultry, but he is now giving most of his attention
to truck farming, which he finds very profitable. Mr. Linderman is
a Democrat in politics, and on numerous occasions has been elected
a delegate to county conventions, serving on various committees. In
1897 he was elected county commissioner, and gave excellent service
to the tax payers, no man ever leaving the office with a cleaner
record than he. Fraternally Mr. Linderman is connected with the P.
O. S. of A.

Mr. Linderman married Emma Swavely, and to them
have been born four children; Mary A. and Clara E., teachers; S.
Catherina, a graduate of the Birdsboro high school, and now
teaching in Robeson township; and Luther L.

LINDERMAN, WARREN F.

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1314

Surnames: LINDERMAN, FRANCIS, JONES, LUDWIG, SCHANTZ, ESTERLY,
WALTERS, SCHRAER

Warren F. Linderman, a leading business man of Reading, Pa.,
engaged as a commission merchant and dealer in fish, oysters,
fruit, truck, etc., at No. 105 North Fifth street, was born June
11, 1871, at Baumstown, in Exeter township, Berks county, son of
Richard M. and Deborah (Francis) Linderman. Three children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Linderman, namely: Morgan; Annie and
Warren F.

Herman Y. Linderman, grandfather of Warren F.,
was born at Mt. Airy, Berks county, and for forty years was a
justice of the peace of Exeter township. He owned a small farm at
Baumstown. He and his wife are buried at Douglassville. Mr.
Linderman married Margaret Jones, and they had two sons and five
daughters: Richard Morgan, who lived and died at Baumstown;
Franklin J., of Baumstown; Ellen m. Charles Ludwig; Sallie m.
Mahlon Schantz; Amelia m. Joseph Esterly; Clara m. John Walters;
and Ida m. John Y. Jones.

Warren F. Linderman received his educational
training in the public schools of Amity township, and when a young
man engaged in work in the mills at Pottstown, where he remained
four years, coming to Reading in 1892, being employed by the
Reading Iron Company for three years. At the end of this time Mr.
Linderman engaged in his present business with the well known firm
of Shade & Esterly, being with this firm for eight years, and
for the next four years with H. A. Esterly. On Dec. 4, 1905, Mr.
Linderman engaged in business on his own account at No. 105 North
Fifth street. Mr. Linderman is doing a large business, his honest,
straightforward methods, as well as his pleasing personality,
having won him much custom, and three wagons are required to
deliver his goods.

Mr. Linderman married Annie R. Schraer, daughter
of late John and Elizabeth Schraer, of Hamburg, Berks county, and
two children have been born to this union, namely: Dorothy N., and
Richard H. Mr. Linderman is fraternally associated with Chandler
Lodge, No. 227, F. & A. M., with Emblematic Lodge, Order of Odd
Fellows, the P. O. S. of A., the Order of Red Men, No. 122, the
Board of Trade and United Commercial Travelers of America. He and
his family are members of the St. Luke Lutheran Church of Reading.

LINK,
WILLIAM

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Surnames: LINK, SNYDER, SCHRADER, MERRITT, WEIDEL, BAUSCHER, KLINE

William Link, who since 1902 has been conducting a grocery
establishment at the corner of Twelfth and Robeson streets, was
born Nov. 25, 1855, in Reading, son of John and Caroline (Snyder)
Link.

John Link was native of Germany, and met his
death at the East Pennsylvania Junction, while working as a section
boss. He lived on Washington street, Reading, for some time where
his children, among whom were John, William and Henry, were born.

William Link was educated in the schools of
Reading, after leaving which he engaged at brushmaking for Heller
& German, with whom he continued about one year. He then worked
in a brickyard for Daniel Schrader for five years, leaving to
engage in foundry work, and after one year became connected with
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, with which road he was
connected for eighteen years as a carpenter. Mr. Link was then
appointed to the police force under Mayor Merritt, and after
serving three years returned to the employ of the railroad company,
but during Mayor Weidel’s administration he was again appointed
city policeman. On the expiration of his term, Mr. Link secured
employment as a brick molder with Thomas Bauscher, with whom he
continued for one year, the next two years being spent in carpenter
work, and in 1902 he embarked in his present business, in which he
has been successful. Mr. Link carries a line of staple and fancy
groceries, and enjoys a good patronage.

Mr. Link was married to Miss Annie Kline, of
Fleetwood, Pa., and to them three children have been born: Frank,
Charles and John. Mr. and Mrs. Link are Lutheran in religious
belief. He is a member of the Jr. O. U. A. M., and a Democrat in
politics, having been very active in the ranks of his party.

LITSCHI,
CHARLES

p. 769

Surnames: LITSCHI, KOBEL, REIFSNYDER

Charles Litschi, who is now living retired in Reading, is one of
our substantial citizens. Born in a foreign land, he has proved
himself loyal to the country in which he has earned his competence,
by being an upright, public-spirited and progressive citizen,
interested in the development and the moral and material welfare of
his adopted land. He is a native of Switzerland, born at Wollerau,
on the banks of Lake Zurich, Nov. 29, 1850. He received his
education in the schools of his native land, and after leaving
school learned the business of printing on cloth. This he followed
at different places before crossing the Atlantic to the New World.
On Nov. 21, 1871, he went to Lorrach, and after a time to Koburg,
where he worked from March 9, 1873, until July 8th of the same
year. He then went home by way of Stuttgart, and after a two weeks
visit with his friends and relatives sailed for America, Aug. 20,
1873, from Havre, France, then in the grip of a cholera epidemic.
The eighteen-day voyage was by way of Southampton to New York, and
was without incident of note. On September 16th they landed at
Castle Garden, and two days later the Jay Cook bank failed and
threw the whole country into a panic. Times were very hard, and Mr.
Litschi, going at once to Philadelphia, found himself at the end of
fourteen days still without work. Idleness was something of which
he knew nothing, and not finding the kind of work he sought, he did
the next best thing, he took the first work that presented itself.
This was as an apprentice at the baker’s trade, and for his
services he received his board and fifteen dollars a month. At this
trade he worked from Oct. 18, 1873, until Feb. 24, 1879, when he
was married to Katharina Kobel, of Klein Zimern, Hessen Darmstadt.
The next day he went to Boyertown, Berks county, and there
purchased the bakery owned by a Mr. Reifsnyder. On March 24, 1879,
he opened up for business, and he met with success from the start.
He had thoroughly learned the art of baking, and as his wares were
first class, and his business methods above reproach, he soon won a
good patronage and many friends. He continued at the business at
Boyertown until Sept. 10, 1899, when he sold out, but he worked for
his successor until April 1, 1900. When he had sold the bakery the
previous September, his family had moved to Reading, and they have
since lived at No. 805 North Tenth street. Since coming here Mr.
Litschi has been enjoying his well-earned rest.

Mr. and Mrs. Litschi have become the parents of
the following children: Joseph, of Reading; Henry, Charles, and
Frank, all deceased and buried at Pottstown; Lewis, a professional
base ball player; and Andrew. All of the children were born at
Boyertown. The family all belong to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church.
In 1898 Mr. Litschi visited Europe, his trip, which included the
principal cities of the Old World, covering more than 8,000
kilometers.

LIVINGOOD, CHARLES
JACOB

p. 1227

Surnames: LIVINGOOD, SHALTER, EMERY, FOSTER, LYTLE, TREON,
LIEBENGUT, LEIBUNDGUT, WEISER

Charles Jacob Livingood, third son of Jacob S. and Lucy (Shalter)
Livingood, was born in Reading, Pa., Feb. 6, 1866. He attended
public and private schools there, and after two years of
preparation at Media Academy, went to Harvard College. Upon
graduation in 1888, he traveled abroad, taking up his residence in
Paris. He attended the Sorbonne and College de France until ill
health compelled him to give up his career as a student of history,
and he returned home to spend a year surveying in the Rocky
Mountains and on the plains of Colorado.

In the autumn of 1890, Mr. Livingood became
connected with the management of the estate of Thomas Emery’s Sons,
at Cincinnati, O., where he has made his home. His activities have
been confined to positions of trust and other business interests.
He is a member of the University, Harvard, Literary and Country
Clubs of Cincinnati. For a number of years he was treasurer of the
Historical Society of Ohio.

Mr. Livingood was married in 1896 to Lily B.
Foster, daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Foster, of Cincinnati. The have
three children: Josephine Lytle, Elizabeth Treon, and John Jacob.

In 1904 Mr. Livingood took his family abroad for
and indefinite stay. Pursuing the genealogical investigations begun
by his father, he visited Alsace-Loraine and established
conclusively, by examination of the parish records of Schalkendorf
(a small hamlet about twenty-five miles northwest of Strassburg),
that the family of Livingood (or Liebengut or Leibundgut, as it is
variously spelled in the old papers), while German-speaking
Lutherans, were but sojourners on the Rhine, for they resided there
only from 1655 to about 1725, when they joined the Palatine
emigration to Schoharie county, N. Y., and thence moved with the
exodus let by Conrad Weiser, to the Tulpehocken. The Livingoods are
Swiss. They migrated to Alsace, after the Thirty Years war, from
Aarwangen, Canton of Berne, where the records show the family name,
usually a Hans or a Jakob, back to 1550. It is spelled in
Switzerland today thus, as it has been for all these centuries:
Leibundgut, and is without doubt taken from the declaration made by
the famous Swiss patriot, Count von Bubenberg: “Mein Leib and Gut
ist euer eigen bis den Tod.”

LIVINGOOD, FRANK S.

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Surnames: LIVINGOOD, LOEWENGUTH, LEIBUNDGUT, LEVENGOOD, SHALTERS

Frank S. Livingood is a descendant of one of the early German
settlers of Berks county. Though originally Swiss the Loewenguths
or Leibundguts emigrated to this country from Alsace where they had
lived for over seventy years in the town of Schalkendorf near
Strassburg. Mr. Livingood’s ancestor, John Jacob Loewenguth,
arrived in New York in 1708, and after residing for a number of
years in Schoharie county, migrated to and settled in Tulpehocken
township, Berks county, in 1727. In April, 1758, he and his wife
were killed by the Indians and their two daughters taken captive. A
son, Jacob, escaped the massacre. From him was descended John
Bricker Levengood, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch,
who was a practicing physician at Womelsdorf, Berks county, from
1812 to 1872. Dr. Levengood had six sons distinguished in the
professions: four as physicians and two as lawyers, of the latter
being Jacob Seltzer Livingood, a member of the Berks County Bar
from 1845 to 1906, who married Lucy Jane Shalters, daughter of
Francis B. Shalters, a prominent citizen of Reading, his home by
adoption. Their son, Frank S. Livingood, was born in Reading Feb.
24, 1855. He attended public and private schools, and for two years
the Reading high school; entered Phillips Andover Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, in 1869, and upon graduating there in 1872 entered
Harvard College, where he graduated with the class of 1876. He then
studied law in Reading in the office of his father, Jacob S.
Livingood, being admitted to the Berks County Bar in August, 1879,
since which time he has been continuously engaged in active
practice. He is vice-President of the Berks County Bar Association.

Actively interested in politics Mr. Livingood
was, from 1881 to 1888, chairman of the Republican county
committee, and in 1884 was a delegate to the Republican National
Convention in Chicago. Mr. Livingood has been president of the
Young Men’s Christian Association of Reading since 1888, and a
trustee of Charles Evans Cemetery Company since 1892. He is
treasurer of the Reading Hospital and trustee of the Reading Public
Library. He has official positions in a number of business
enterprises, and is a member of the following: Pennsylvania State
Bar Association, the Wyomissing and Berkshire Clubs of Reading, the
University Club of Philadelphia and the Harvest Club of New York.
Mr. Livingood is a member of St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran
Church of Reading.

LIVINGOOD, JACOB B.

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Surnames: LIVINGOOD, BETDORF, SANDS, ARTZ, FISHER, KOLLER, MOYER,
WALBORN, FRANTZ, STRIKER, BICKEL, SCHREIVER, HOLTZMAN

Jacob B. Livingood, who is the well known proprietor of Kline’s
Mill, formerly known as Shubert’s is one of the substantial
business men of Bethel township. His birth occurred July 7, 1847,
at Ebling’s Mill, Bethel township, and he was a son of John and
Catherine (Betdorf) Livingood.

Peter Livingood, the great-grandfather of Jacob
B., served seven years in the Revolutionary war, after which great
struggle he assisted in arresting the Tories and transporting them
to Canada he married a Miss Sands, of Montgomery county, and to
them were born six children. (1) Jacob was the grandfather of Jacob
B. (2) Samuel, who resided near Livingood’s Mill, in Tulpehocken
township, was a farmer all his life, and died aged about
sixty-seven years. (3) Thomas, also a resident of Tulpehocken
township, near the old mill, later removed to Iowa, where he died
when seventy-five years of age. (4) Eli, who resided in Myerstown,
Lebanon county, served through the Mexican war, under Gen. Scott,
gained high honors and was mustered out as captain of artillery. He
was reputed to have been very daring and positively without fear,
and when the Pottsville Company arrived at his command he was so
elated that in the height of battle he mounted a cannon and waving
his cap gave three cheers. He died in his native town at the
advanced age of eighty-three years. (5) A daughter married John
Artz, a farmer of Tulpehocken township, and died when seventy-eight
years old. (6) Mrs. Baum resided in Lancaster county and died there
at an advanced age.

Jacob Livingood, grandfather of Jacob B., was a
miller and resided at the old homestead in Tulpehocken township
until his death, March 30, 1853, at the age of fifty-nine years,
eleven months, twenty-two days. He was married to Catherine Miller,
and she bore him twelve children: (John was the father of Jacob B.
(2) Elizabeth married Edward Walborn, who followed various
occupations until the outbreak of the Civil War when he received a
clerkship from the capitol at Washington. She died in Myerstown,
when about sixty-four years of age. (3) George, who was married and
lived at what is known as Ebling’s Mill, enlisted in the Union army
when the war broke out; and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg,
leaving five children. (4) Thomas and (5) Jacob died young. (6)
Sarah, who married Benjamin K Fisher, resided in Western
Pennsylvania, but died in Philadelphia aged about sixty years,
leaving three children. (7) Catherine died young. (8) Lydia,
unmarried, lives at Myerstown, Lebanon county, with a sister. (9)
Rebecca, who is also unmarried. (10) Lucy, who married Cyrus
Koller, resided at Myerstown. (11) Mary married Jackson Moyer and
resides in Schuylkill county: having three children. (12) Isaac,
who resided in Schuylkill Haven, followed various occupations,
being at one time telegraph operator at Auburn, Schuylkill county,
and died aged sixty-one years, leaving two children.

John Livingood, father of Jacob B., was born
Jan. 13, 1820, at the old homestead in Tulpehocken township, and
learned the trade of miller, which he followed until his
retirement. He married Miss Catherine Betdorf, and to them were
born the following children: John, a miller of near Stouchsburg;
Cyrus, formerly a miller and later an engineer, of Sinking Spring;
Jacob B.; Thomas, a miller and steam sawmiller, as well as general
lumberman of Hamburg, Berks county; Malinda, who married Levi
Frantz and died aged about forty years; Levi, who is married and
resides at Lebanon, Lebanon county; Lovina, who married George
Stricker, of Reading; and Eli, who is unmarried and also makes his
home in Reading.

Jacob B. Livingood, the well-known mill
proprietor, secured his literary training in the public schools,
although his educational advantages were somewhat limited owing to
the fact that he was expected to assist his father in the mill. He
learned the trade with his father, with whom he remained until some
time after his marriage, when he went into business for himself,
now being the owner and operator of what was formerly known as
Shubert’s now Kline’s Mill.

When not quite of age, Mr. Livingood was married
(first) to Miss Sarah Bickel, daughter of Jonathan Bickel, and to
this union one child was born, who died when quite young. Mr.
Livingood was married (second) to Miss Rebecca Schreiver, who bore
him one son, Jacob, now living in Heidelberg, Adams county. He was
married (third) to Miss Ella Holtzman, of near Millersburg. Mr.
Livingood is a Republican in politics, but has never aspired to
office. He belongs to the Knights of the Mystic Chain, the Sons of
America, and the I. O. O. F., in the latter of which he has been
very active, filling all of the chairs.

LIVINGOOD, WILLIAM H.

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Surnames: LIVINGOOD, BLACK, RICHARDS, JAMESON, POTTER, RHOADS,
SMITH, ZIEGLER

William H. Livingood, long an eminent member of the Bar in Berks
county, where he practiced for a period of forty years, passed away
Oct. 22, 1906, in his seventieth year. From 1860 until his death he
maintained a high standing in the legal fraternity and had a
reputation not only in his own county by also in Philadelphia,
where he was located for six years.

Mr. Livingood was born April 5, 1837 at
Womelsdorf, this county, son of Dr. John B. Livingood, a
distinguished physician of that place, and grandson of John
Livingood. He received his early education in his native place,
attending the Union Academy at Womelsdorf, from which he graduated
in 1851. He continued his literary studies at the Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass., where he completed the course in 1855, after which
he took his special preparation for his profession, at the Law
School of Harvard University. He was accordingly admitted to the
Bar at Lowell, Mass., and returning home was admitted to practice
in Berks county on Jan. 19, 1860. With the exception of the six
years he spent in Philadelphia, he was from that time until his
death engaged in general legal practice in Reading. For the first
three years he was in partnership with his brother, and then for
about ten years he had an office of his own in Reading, where he
built up a practice which was a decided tribute to his ability,
fidelity and intelligent attention to the interests of his clients.
In 1873 he moved to Philadelphia, where his expectations were fully
realized, his patronage being all that could be desired. During his
residence there, in 1874, he was admitted to the United States
Supreme Court, at Washington, D. C., the motion for which action
was made by Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania.

In 1879 Mr. Livingood, feeling that his original
field was more congenial in many ways, returned to Reading, where
he ever after remained. Except for comparatively brief connection
with the Staten Island Terra Cotta Company, which he formed upon
his return to Reading, he devoted himself wholly to his profession.
He was for a few years treasurer of the company, which carried on
the manufacturer of fire brick at Staten Island, N. Y., but
disposed of his interest in order to give all his time to legal
work. As a pleader Mr. Livingood had no superior at the Berks
county Bar. His learning, his accuracy, his thorough comprehension
commanded the attention of his fellow practitioners whenever he
gave utterance to an opinion, and these, combined with ready
eloquence and unrivalled ease of delivery, won him an interested
and sympathetic audience in the courtroom, no matter which side
retained him. He was a man whose personal character and habits were
above reproach, winning him the esteem and admiration of all his
associates, his co-workers as well as his clients. His private
affairs demanded all his attention, and he neither sought nor held
public office, his only services of such nature being given as
solicitor for the almshouse, which position he held three years. He
was however, both interested and active in politics, as an ardent
member of the Democratic party, and he was president of the
Keystone club during the McClellan campaign. His church connection
was with the Presbyterians, and he held membership in a Masonic
lodge at Reading, being past master of the same. His death carried
mourning into many circles outside his home, for he was universally
liked.

On Aug. 20, 1863, by the Rev. E. J. Richards,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Livingood married Anna H.
Jameson of Reading, and to them were born four sons, namely: (1)
James J. is manager of the Spa Spring Clay and Brick Works, and
makes his home in New York City. He m. Miss Elizabeth Potter, of
Woodbridge, N. J., and they have one son, James J. (2) Albert J. m.
Irene Rhoads, and died at the early age of twenty-seven years,
leaving one son, James S., who is in Philadelphia. (3) Paul, a
druggist, was previously in business in Allentown, Pa., but is now
in San Francisco, Cal., with the Owl Drug Company. He m. Laura
Smith, who died in 1905, the mother of two children, John and Ruth.
(4) William W., M. D., received his medical education at the
University of Pennsylvania, and is now located in practice at
Reading. He m. Stella Ziegler, daughter of Dr. P. M. Ziegler, of
Reading.

LIVINGOOD,
W. W. (M. D.)

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Surnames: LIVINGOOD, JAMIESON, BRACKBILL, ZIEGLER

W. W. Livingood, M. D., one of Reading’s well-known young
professional men, who has been engaged in the practice of medicine
since 1899, was born Aug. 13, 1876, in Reading, son of William H.
and Anna (Jamieson) Livingood.

Dr. Livingood received his preliminary
educational training in the public schools of Reading, after which
he attended a preparatory school at Woodbridge, N. J. He read
medicine with Dr. Joseph A. Brackbill, and subsequently, in 1895,
entered the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he
was graduated in 1899 with the degree of M. D. He at once engaged
in the practice of his profession, but later served for one year as
resident physician at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Dr. Livingood is a
member of the city, county, State and national medical
associations, and while at college was connected with the Stelli
Medical Society, and the Nu Sigma Nu, Greek fraternity. In
political matters he is independent, and he and Mrs. Livingood are
members of the Presbyterian Church.

In 1901 Dr. W. W. Livingood married Miss Stella
M. Ziegler. They spend the summer seasons at their beautiful summer
residence in Robesonia.