THEODORE LIVEZEY,
Superintendent of the Old Dominion Land Company, at Newport News,
Virginia, was born at Lumberville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He
is a son of Allen and Mary A. (Gordon) Livezey, now of Yardley, Pennsylvania,
and a grandson of Robert Livezey, formerly of Pennsylvania.
His paternal ancestor, Jonathan Livezey, came from England and
settled in Pennsylvania in 1682. His maternal ancestor, James Paxson,
of Bycot House, Oxfordshire, England, settled in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, in 1682. He married at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
November 15, 1865, a union blessed with three sons: Harry C., now
residing in New York city; Walter B., living at Newport News; Herbert
S., now in Yardley, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Livezey's school days were passed in his native town. At the
age of fifteen years he went into a retail drug store in the city of Philadelphia.
He entered the United States Army on his twenty-second
birth-day, August 20, 1862, and received honorable discharge from
service in April, 1865. He was a building contractor from that time
until 1877; then had charge of a lumber and coal yard for Alex. B.
Green, Greensburg, New Jersey, until March, 1881, at which time he
received appointment as superintendent of construction for the Old
Dominion Land Company, which position he held until appointed, in
1885, to the office he now holds for this company. Mr. Livezey is a
member of the Society of Friends.
