Livingston family.

The Livingstons are a prominent New York State family which has played an active role in American commerce, politics, military, industry, and society since 1686, when the British crown deeded Livingston Manor, 160,000 acres of land in the Hudson River Valley, to Robert Livingston (1654-1728). Within a century, through marriage and purchase, the manor grew to encompass over 250 square miles of land between the Hudson River and the present border of Massachusetts, comprising what is now the southern half of New York State's Columbia County. Throughout the manor lands family members and descendants developed nearly forty country houses, including Oak Hill, built in the mid-1790s by John Livingston (1750-1822), son of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), third and last Lord of Livingston Manor. The material that comprises the Livingston Family Papers was removed from Oak Hill in 2003 by Henry H. Livingston (1918-2008), the seventh owner of the house, and sixth-generation Livingston to live there. A Livingston family tree appears below; biographical sketches of John Livingston and his descendants appear in Series I through VIII of the finding aid. Additional family history, genealogical, and biographical information can be found within the papers, as well as in Ruth Piwonka's volume, A Portrait of Livingston Manor, 1686-1850 (1986).

The Curran family of Utica, New York, and Mulford family of New Haven, Connecticut, and New York City, became related to the Livingstons in 1916 when Henry H. Livingston married Mary Eleanor Curran; the Currans and Mulfords had been united forty years earlier through the marriage of Mary Eleanor's parents, John Elliott Curran and Eliza Phillips Mulford. Biographical sketches of these families, along with pertinent genealogical material, is found in Series XI; family trees for each appear below.

Family members who are prominent in the papers appear in boldface, and the inheritors of Oak Hill appear in all capital letters. The couple underlined, Henry H. and Mary Eleanor Curran Livingston, provide the key link with the family trees of the Curran and Mulford families, which follow that of the Livingstons; those family trees are of particular use in identifying the correspondents in Series XI.

JOHN LIVINGSTON (1750–1822) of Oak Hill, m. 1775 Mary Ann Le Roy (8 children, including - - 2 HERMAN LIVINGSTON (1793–1872) m.1821 Sarah Lawrence Hallet (1795-1868) - - - - 3 John Henry Livingston (1822–1846) - - - - 3 Cornelia Livingston (1824–1851) m. Clermont Livingston (1817–1895) - - - - 3 HERMAN TONG LIVINGSTON (1827–1899) m. 1853 Susan Bard Rogers (1835–1911) - - - - - - 4 HERMAN LIVINGSTON (1856–1936) m. 1882 Emeline Cornell Hopkins (1859–1940) - - - - - - - - 5 HERMAN LIVINGSTON (1883–1951) m. 1909 Olga Kobbé (1883–1968) - - - - - - - - - - 6 Alida Schuyler Livingston (1915–1940) - - - - - - - - 5 HENRY HOPKINS LIVINGSTON (1887–1960) m. 1916 Mary Eleanor Curran (1884–1969) - - - - - - - - - - 6 HENRY HOPKINS LIVINGSTON (1918–2008) m. 1942 Maria M. Burroughs (b. 1919) - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Isabel Church (b. 1943) m. Henry Blackiston; m. Raymond Wilson; m. Richard Stone - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Henry H. III (b. 1945) m. Pamela M. Forster - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Richard H. B. (b. 1947) m. Elizabeth Dubben - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Catharine van Brugh (b. 1949) m. Robert Edmonds; m. Rhett Tyler - - - - - - - - - - 6 Eleanor Mulford Livingston (b. 1920) - - - - - - - - - - 6 Herman Livingston II (1923–2007) m. 1957 Janet Harris - - - - - - - - 5 Edmund Pendleton Livingston (1889–1972) m. 1923 Kathleen Imelda O’Connor - - - - - - - - - - 6 Edmund Pendleton Livingston Jr. (b. 1924) m. Dorothy Corser - - - - - - - - - - 6 Kathleen Livingston (b. 1925) m. William Ward; m. Robert Watson - - - - - - - - - - 6 Patricia Livingston (b. 1927) m. Paul Maynard; m. Arthur Langille - - - - - - - - - - 6 John Livingston (1933-1946) - - - - - - 4 Edmund Pendleton Livingston (1857–1888) - - - - - - 4 John Callendar Livingston (1862–1956) m. 1892 Louise Foote Bowler (1861–1933) - - - - - - - - 5 Louise Alida Livingston (1893–1967) - - - - - - 4 Anna Pendleton Livingston (1866–1967) - - - - - - 4 Archibald Rogers Livingston (1868–1952) - - - - - - 4 Sarah Livingston (1871–1959) m. 1907 George H. Williams (1860–1937) - - - - - - - - 5 Helen M. Williams m. Hermon McMillan - - - - - - - - 5 Dorothy L. Williams (1908–1980) m. S. F. Brewster - - - - - - - - - - 6 Dorothy Brewster (b. 1932) m 1952 Martin K. Hansell - - - - - - - - - - 6 William Brewster (1932–2004) m. 1965 Ann Hutchinson (b. 1931) - - - - - - -- 5 John V. V. Williams

Edward Curran (1803-1856) m. 1828 Amanda Hamilton Bartlett (1807–1837) - - 2 Celia Frances Curran (b. 1829) - - 2 Charles Carroll Curran (1830–1858) - - 2 Amanda Maria Curran (b. 1833) - - 2 Edward Curran Jr. (b. 1835) - - 2 Horatio Bartlett Curran (b. 1837) m. 1839 Mary Jane Langford (1815–1893) - - 2 George Langford Curran (1840–1925) m. Cornelia Douglas (1840–1922) - - - - 3 Gertrude Douglas Curran (1868–1927) - - - - 3 Stanley Douglas Curran (1870–1911) m. Ella M. (1870–1942) - - 2 Henry Hastings Curran (1841–1864) - - 2 Philip Clinton Curran (1843–1877) - - 2 Mary Langford Curran (1846–1925) m. Willard Peck (1844–1924) - - - - 3 Philip Curran Peck (1874–1954) m. Evelyn Williams (1874–1936); m. Zeneida Swegen (1919–2004) - - - - 3 Darius Edward Peck (1877–1944) m. Juliette M. Brown (b. 1895) - - - - - - 4 Willard Langford Peck (1923–2004) m. Colleen Murphy - - - - - - - - 5 Elizabeth Peck (1957–2000) - - - - - - 4 Molly Curran Peck (1928–1974) - - - - 3 Mary Langford Peck (1881–1973) m. Lloyd Burdwin Holsapple (1884–1959) - - 2 John Elliott Curran (1848– 1890) m. 1875 Eliza (Lilla) Phillips Mulford (1852–1936) - - - - 3 Henry Hastings Curran (1877–1966) m. 1905 Frances (Fanny) Ford Hardy (1881–1971) - - - - 3 Gerald (Jay) Mulford Curran (1879–1960) m. 1904 Marguerite Maurice Bartow (1881–1953) - - - - 3 Mary Eleanor Curran (1883–1969) m. 1916 Henry Hopkins LIVINGSTON (1887–1960)

James Hervey Mulford (1802–1885) m. 1826 Rebecca Gorham Atwater (1802–1843) - - 2 Hervey M. Mulford (1827–1866) m. 1856 Fredericka S. Ironside - - - - 3 William Remsen Mulford (b. 1857) - - - - 3 Dexter Walker Ironside Mulford (b. 1865) m. Annie F. Beetson - - 2 Mary (May) Mulford (1829–1898) m. 1854 James Henry Coghill (1817–1898) - - - - 3 Sarah (Sade) Adeline Coghill (b. 1849) - - - - 3 Henry Coghill (1854–1857) - - - - 3 Howard Coghill (1858–1922) - - 2 Elizabeth Atwater Mulford (1831–1879) m. Charles W. Crosby (b. ca. 1827 ) - - - - 3 Charles Crosby - - - - 3 Wellington Crosby (ca. 1858–1890) m. 1883 Belle Alexandria Frazer - - 2 James Hervey Mulford (1836–1885) m. 1849 Mary Moore Cunningham Porter (1810–1897) - - 2 Emma S. Mulford (1851–1851) - - 2 Eliza (Lilla) Phillips Mulford (1852–1936) m. 1875 John Elliott Curran (1848–1890) - - - - 3 Henry Hastings Curran (1877–1966) m. 1905 Frances (Fanny) Ford Hardy (1881–1971) - - - - 3 Gerald (Jay) Mulford Curran (1879–1960) m. 1904 Marguerite Maurice Bartow (1881–1953) - - - - 3 Mary Eleanor Curran (1883–1969) m. 1916 Henry Hopkins LIVINGSTON (1887–1960)

From the guide to the Livingston family papers, 1702-2003, 1850-2003, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)