J. R. LIVINGSTON, was born in Boone County, Ill., March 16, 1845, where he resided until the war. The suppression
of the rebellion called him to arms. He enlisted October 1, 1864, in Company K, Ninety-fifth Illinois Infantry; he was
transferred to the Eighth Missouri. He served until the close of the war, and took part in the second battle of Nashville,
and the siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely. After the war he removed to Cedar Falls, Iowa; was educated in the
high school of that city, and graduated from Bryant & Stratton's Business College of Chicago. He taught penmanship
in Illinois and Iowa for two years. In 1870 he came to Seneca, Kan., on horseback; was a carpenter, and for a time
kept a store in Seneca. In 1874, he removed to Axtell, Marshall Co., Kan., and opened a general stock of merchandise.
He has been in business ever since and is doing well; has been Township Treasurer for six years. He was appointed
Postmaster for Axtell, March 5, 1875, and is still there; is also a Notary. He was married January 1, 1879, to
Miss Lizzie R. Shumway, at Axtell. Mrs. Livingston died August 8, 1880; has one child -- Rowena, born April 14, 1878.
William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
MARSHALL COUNTY, Part 13
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/marshall/marshall-co-p13.html
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