Livingston
Livingston names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Livingston EDWARD, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD, an American statesman; born in Clermont, Columbia co., N. Y., May 26, 1764. He was a brother of Robert Livingston, was educated at Princeton College, and was called to the bar in 1785. In 1794 he was elected member of Congress, and distinguished himself by his opposition to Alien and Sedition Bills. He belong to the party then called Republican, and since Democratic. In 1801 he retired from Congress, and accepted the two offices of mayor of New York, and attorney-general for the district of New York. Owing to his negligence and the fraud of an agent, he res resigned office in 1804, giving up his property to the State and settled at New Orleans. He became a member of the Legislature of Louisiana and revised the municipal law. He also drew up a new code of criminal law for the State. On this code his fame rests. His manuscript was burnt on the night it was finished, and he did the work over again, at the cost of two years' labor. In 1829 he became Senator of the United tate under Presi- States, Secretary of State under Presi- 1888, ambassador dent Jackson, and, in 1833, ambassador Paris be was to France. While at Paris he te of the Academy was chosen Foreign Associate of the Academy in Rhinebeck, N. of Sciences. He died in Rhinebeck, N. Y., May 23, 1836. AVID, a Scotch
Livingston a city of Montana
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Montana, the county-seat of Park co. It is on the Yellowstone river, and on the Northern Pacific railroad. It is the headquarters of a railroad division, and its industries include machine shops, lumber mills, lime works, etc. It is the center of an important stock raising and agricultural region. It has a public library and a high school. Pop. (1910) 5,359; (1920) 6,311.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's said in 1921 that Edward Livingston's fame rested on the criminal code he drafted for Louisiana and rewrote from scratch after the manuscript burned; that judgement still holds, with the wrinkle that Louisiana never actually enacted the code, and its lasting influence came instead through admirers abroad who treated it as a model of humane, anti-capital-punishment penal law. The Montana city has fared differently from the account of it as "the headquarters of a railroad division" with machine shops and lumber mills: the Northern Pacific was folded into Burlington Northern in 1970 and the big railroad shops closed in the 1980s, leaving tourism, fly fishing on the Yellowstone and traffic bound for Yellowstone National Park as the mainstays. Growth has been slow — from the 6,311 people counted in 1920 to roughly 8,000 today — but Livingston is still the seat of Park County.
Written for this edition, 2026.