Livingston

American family active in politics in the 18th century. Robert Livingston (1654–1728) was born in Ancrum, Scotland, and emigrated to America about 1673. He received a grant of Livingston Manor on the Hudson River. His grandchildren included William Livingston; Peter van Brugh Livingston (1710–1792), a prominent merchant and a political leader on the Whig side in New York; and Philip Livingston (1716–78), a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, and Whig leader.

Livingston

City and administrative headquarters of Sumter County, west-central Alabama, 93 km/58 mi southwest of Tuscaloosa; population (1990 est) 3,500. It is an agricultural trade centre, and the seat of Livingston University (1835).

Livingston

City and administrative headquarters of Park County, south-central Montana, on the Yellowstone River, 37 km/23 mi east of Bozeman; population (2000) 6,900. It is a trade centre for an agricultural, quarrying (marble, granite), and mining (arsenic, silver, gold) area. Situated 72 km/45 mi north of Yellowstone National Park, and near skiing and mountain climbing areas, it is also a popular resort.

Livingston has housed a number of literary and other public figures, including Calamity Jane and Kitty ‘Madame Bulldog’ O'Leary, who ran a dance hall/brothel here.

Livingston

Township in northeastern New Jersey, 13 km/8 mi northwest of Newark; population (1990 est) 26,600. It is mainly a wealthy commuter suburb with corporate offices and some light industry.

It was created in 1813 from seven hamlets, and was formerly a trading and distribution centre for local dairy products, poultry, and vegetables.