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Maturin Livingston
Born(1816-03-04)March 4, 1816
Staatsburg, New York, U.S.
DiedNovember 29, 1888(1888-11-29) (aged 72)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Spouse
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(m. 1852)​
ChildrenElizabeth Livingston
Ruth Livingston
Parent(s)Maturin Livingston
Margret Lewis Livingston
RelativesRobert James Livingston (brother)
Alexander Hamilton, Jr. (brother-in-law)
Morgan Lewis (grandfather)

Maturin Livingston Jr. (March 4, 1816 – November 29, 1888), an American merchant who was a member of the prominent Livingston family.[1]

Early life

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The Livingston mansion, the country home of the Mills family.

Livingston was born on March 4, 1816, in Staatsburg, New York.[2] He was the son of Maturin Livingston (1769–1847) and Margaret (née Lewis) Livingston (1780–1860). He was one of twelve children,[3] including: Morgan Lewis;[4] Gertrude Laura;[5] Julia;[6][7] Alfred; Mortimer;[4][8][9] Susan Mary;[4] Robert James Livingston;[1] Henry Beekman;[1] and Angelica, who married Alexander Hamilton, Jr.[10][11]

His paternal grandparents were Robert James Livingston and Susanna (née Smith) Livingston, sister of Chief Justice William Smith and daughter of Judge William Smith.[12] His mother was the only daughter and sole heiress of his maternal grandparents, New York Governor Morgan Lewis and Gertrude (née Livingston) Lewis. His mother was also the niece of Chancellor Robert Livingston and the granddaughter of Judge Robert R. Livingston.[1]

Career

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Livingston was engaged in mercantile business in New York as a young man.[13]

In 1844, upon the death of his grandfather, his parents inherited Gov. Lewis's stately home Staatsburgh House in Staatsburg, Dutchess County, New York.[14] Later, Livingston himself inherited the mansion which he later passed down to his younger daughter Ruth, which the couple used as a summer home and where they raised horses.[1]

Society life

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Livingston and his wife were both prominent in society.[15] In 1892, a few years after his death, his widow 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.[16][17] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.[18]

Personal life

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Portrait of his daughter Ruth Livingston Mills, by Francois Glamony

On November 12, 1852, Livingston was married to Ruth Baylies (1827–1918),[19] the daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth (née Payson) Baylies from Taunton, Massachusetts.[20] Ruth's nephew was Edmund Lincoln Baylies Jr., the lawyer and prominent society member.[1] Together, they were the parents of eight children, including two twin daughters who were the only children to survive their parents:[21]

Livingston died at the residence of his son-in-law at 2 East 69th Street in New York City on November 29, 1888.[13] In 1916, his widow's address was listed at 4 East 69th Street in New York.[24]

Descendants

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Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was the grandfather of two granddaughters,[25] Mary Augusta Cavendish-Bentinck (1881–1913) and Ruth Evelyn Cavendish-Bentinck (1883–1978).[26][27]

Through his daughter Ruth, he was the grandfather of Gladys Livingston Mills (1883–1970), who married Henry Carnegie Phipps;[28] Jane Beatrice Mills (1883–1972), who married Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard;[29] and Ogden Livingston Mills (1884–1937),[30] [31] who would become the 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury,[32] and who married Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford in 1911. After their divorce in 1919, he married Dorothy Randolph Fell, former wife of the banker John R. Fell, in 1924.[33][34]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f 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. 1345. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. ^ Guernsey, Rocellus Sheridan (1895). New York City and Vicinity During the War of 1812-15: Being a Military, Civic and Financial Local History of that Period. C. L. Woodward. p. 266. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  3. ^ New York, Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999
  4. ^ a b c Browning, Charles Henry (1891). Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to the Legitimate Issue of Kings. Porter & Costes. p. 504. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  5. ^ Fisher, Eliza Middleton; Middleton, Mary Hering (2001). Best Companions: Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia, and Newport, 1839-1846. University of South Carolina Press. p. 225. ISBN 9781570033759. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  6. ^ "JOSEPH DELAFIELD". The New York Times. February 14, 1875. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  7. ^ The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York: History, Customs, Record of Events, Constitution, Certain Genealogies, and Other Matters of Interest. V. 1-. Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. 1905. p. 45. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  8. ^ Simmons, Agatha Aimar (1940). Charleston, S.C., a Haven for the Children of Admiral de Grasse. p. 9. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  9. ^ Reports of Selected Cases Decided in Courts of the State of New York other than the Court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court : miscellaneous reports. Williams Press. 1963. p. 134. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  10. ^ MacCracken, Henry Noble (1958). Blithe Dutchess: The Flowering of an American County from 1812. Hastings House. p. 485. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  11. ^ Christoph, Florence A. (1992). Schuyler Genealogy: A Compendium of Sources Pertaining to the Schuyler Families in America Prior to 1800. Friends of Schuyler Mansion. p. 256. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  12. ^ Wardell, Pat (October 2010). "Early Bergen County Families" (PDF). njgsbc.org. The Genealogical Society of Bergen County. Retrieved 16 April 2017.[permanent dead link]
  13. ^ a b "Obituary Notes". The New York Times. 1 December 1888. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  14. ^ "Clermont State Historic Site: It All Started Here: Livingstons and the Mansions of the Hudson Valley". Clermont State Historic Site. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  15. ^ Homberger, Eric (2004). Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age. Yale University Press. pp. 9, 172, 199. ISBN 0300105150. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ Patterson, Jerry E. (2000). The First Four Hundred: Mrs. Astor's New York in the Gilded Age. Random House Incorporated. p. 221. ISBN 9780847822089. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ "DIED. Livingston". The New York Times. 22 November 1918. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  20. ^ Emery, Samuel Hopkins (1893). History of Taunton, Massachusetts: From Its Settlement to the Present Time. D. Mason & Company. p. 6. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  21. ^ Semans, Barbara Broome (2009). John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd Vol. I: Their Descendants and Related Families 18th to 21st Centuries. Xlibris Corporation. p. 217. ISBN 9781462811137. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  22. ^ Depew, Chauncey M. (October 20, 2013). Titled Americans, 1890: A list of American ladies who have married foreigners of rank. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781783660056. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  23. ^ "Ogden Mills Dies At His Home Here. Financier Is the Victim of Pneumonia After Three Weeks Illness. He Was 72 Years Old. Active in Many Philanthropies and Long a Leader in Social Affairs. A Native of California. Interested in Racing". New York Times. January 29, 1929. Retrieved 2013-12-18. Ogden Mills financier and father of Ogden L. Mills, Under-Secretary of the Treasury, died at 1:30 A.M. today at his home, 2 East Sixty-ninth Street, following an illness of more than three weeks. ...
  24. ^ Social Register, New York. Social Register Association. 1916. p. 406. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  25. ^ "THE BENTINCKS.; THE LATE DUKE OF PORTLAND AND HIS FAMILY". The New York Times. 25 December 1879. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  26. ^ Times, Special Cable To The New York (23 August 1909). "G. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK DEAD | Wife Was Elizabeth Livingston, Sister of Mrs. Ogden Mills". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  27. ^ Lloyd, Brigitte Gastel. "Biography of William George Cavendish-Bentinck (1854-1909)". brigittegastelancestry.com. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  28. ^ Alden Whitman (October 20, 1970). "Mrs. H.C. Phipps, Leader in Horse Racing, Dies; Wheatley Stable Owner, 87, Was Noted for Breeding of Winning Thoroughbreds". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-04-28. Mrs. Gladys Mills Phipps, widow of Henry Carnegie Phipps and celebrated for many years as the First Lady of the Turf, died yesterday after a short illness at Spring Hill, her Westbury, L. I., estate. The New York and Palm Beach society leader and owner of Wheatley Stable was 87 years old.
  29. ^ "Lady Granard, Daughter Of Ogden Mills, Dies at 88". New York Times. 3 February 1972. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
  30. ^ "MRS. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK | Former Elizabeth Livingston, a Member of Noted N.Y. Family". The New York Times. 7 November 1943. p. 56. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  31. ^ "LARGE AMERICAN DOWRIES". The New York Times. 19 November 1893. p. 12. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  32. ^ Times, Special To The New York (13 February 1932). "MILLS TAKES OATH AS TREASURY HEAD; Ambassador Mellon and Assistant Secretary Ballantine Are Sworn In at the Same Time. CROWD ATTENDS CEREMONY Hoover, in Accepting Mellon's Formal Resignation, Commends His Long Public Service". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  33. ^ Times, Special To The New York (3 September 1924). "Congressman Ogden L. Mills Is Wed to Mrs. Dorothy R. Fell by Peace Justice". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  34. ^ "Ogden Mills Dies Suddenly At 53. Former Secretary of Treasury Is Stricken by Heart Attack in His Home Here". New York Times. October 12, 1937. Retrieved 2013-12-18. Ogden L. Mills, former Secretary of the Treasury and a Republican party leader often suggested as a possible Presidential nominee, died suddenly yesterday of a heart attack in his home at 2 East Sixtyninth Street.
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