LIVINGSTON
LLOYD
lished the New York Society library in 1754. He
was a member of the provincial assembly from
Livingston manor, 1759-6L He published articles
in the Weekly Post Boy denouncing the stamp
act. In 1760 he purchased a farm at Elizabeth-
town, N.J., to which he removed in 1773. On
June 11, 1774, he was appointed to represent Essex
county in a committee of correspondence to select
delegates for election to the first Continental
congress, July 23, 1774. He was a delegate from
New Jersey to the Continental congress, 1774-76,
and served on many important committees. He
was appointed commander-in-chief of the New
Jersey militia with the rank of brigadier-general
in June, 1776; was governor of New Jersey, 1776-
90, and was nominated in Januar}^ 1785, one of
the commissioners to superintend the construc-
tion of the Federal buildings, but declined the
honor as he diJ that of U.S. minister plenipoten-
tiary to the Hague, June 23, 1785, owing to his
advanced age. It was largely through his efforts
that the legislature of New Jersey passed the act
forbidding the importation of slaves, Marcli 2,
1786. In 1787 he was a delegate to the Philadel-
phia convention that framed the U.S. constitu-
tion, and he signed the instrument Sept. 17, 1787.
He was a member of the American Philosophical
society, and of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. The honorary degree of LL.D.
was conferred on him by Yale college in 1788.
He published, in conjunction with William Smith,
Jr., A Digest of the Laics of New York, 1691-1702
(2 vols., 1752-62. ) He is the author of: Philosophic
Solitude, or the Choice of a Rural Life (1747); A
Review of the Military Operations in North
America (1757); Observations on Government
(1787). He died at "Liberty Hall," Elizabeth-
town, N.J.. July 25, 1790,
LIVINGSTON, William, educator, was born in Unity, N.H., Oct. 12, 1815; son of James and Hannali (Clifford) Livingston. His early life was spent on a farm and he was graduated from Norwich university in 1839 and taught school in Cavendish and Unity Center. He received the fellowship of the Green Mountain association of Universalists in June, 1843; was ordained in Hartford, Vt., Jan. 8, 1846, and preached in various places in New Hampshire and Vermont. In 1855 he became professor of natural science at Lombard university, Galesburg, 111.; was chosen provisional president in 1872 and financial secre- tary of the university in 1875. He was twice married, first in 1842 to Eliza A. Pierce, who died in 1855 and secondly in 1858 to Lucinda A. Still- man of Chillicothe, 111., who died in 1887. Mr. Livingston died at Galesburg, 111., Dec. 29, 1879.
LLOYD, Arthur Selden, clergyman, was born at Mount Ida, Alexandria county, Va., May 3, 1857; son of John Janney and Eliza Armisteail
(Selden) Lloyd, and grandson of John and Rebecca
(Janney) Lloyd and of Wilson Cary and Mary
(Armistead) Selden. He attended the Potonuic
academy at Alexandria, Va.; studied at the Uni-
versity of Virginia, 1874-77, and was graduated
from the Theological Seminary of Virginia in
1880. He was married June 30, 1880, to Lizzie
Robertson, daughter of William Willis and Marj'
(Robertson) Blackford. He was ordered deacon
in 1880; ordained priest in 1881, and serve^l as a
missionary in the diocese of Virginia. 1SN0-S5.
He was rector of St. Luke's, Norfolk, Va., 18«5-
99, and was elected general secretary of the
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the
Protestant Episcopal Churcli in the United States
of America in October, 1899. The honorary degree
of D.D. was conferred on him by Roanoke college
in 1898.
LLOYD, Edward, governor of Maryland, was born in " Wye House," Talbot county, Md., July 22, 1779; son of Edward and Elizabeth (Taylor) Lloyd. His father inherited and acquired an es- tate approxi- OLP 5TATE HOUSE,-
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mating 12,-
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land. The
5th Edward
was a dele
gate to the
state legis
lature, 1880-
05; and was
elected i e-
presentati\e^J'^
in the 9th ^^
U. S. con- - "
gress, to fill -^-
the unexpu- C
ed term of Jc^eph H Nicliolson, resigntd, and
re-elected to the 10th congi<rSo, seiving fiom
Dec. 1, 1806 to March 3, 1809. He was governor of
Maryland, 1809-11; state senator, 1811; presiden-
tial elector, 1813, voting for James Madison;
U.S. senator, 1819-26, having been re-elected
in 1824 and resigned his seat in February, 1826,
when he was succeeded by E. F. Chambers. He
was a state senator, and president of the body
1826-31. He was married Nov. 30, 1797, to Sally
Scott, daughter of Dr. James and Sarah (Mayna-
dier) Murray and their son Edward was state sen-
ator and president of the senate, 1851-54. Gover-
nor Lloyd died in Annapolis, Md., June 2, 1834.
LLOYD, Henry, governor of Maryland, was born in Hambrooke, Dorchester county, Md.. Feb. 21, 1852; son of Daniel and Kitty (Henry) Llo3-d; grandson of Edward and Sally Scott (Murray) Lloyd and of Campbell Henry, and great grandson of John Henry (q.v.), governor of Mary- land. He spent his childhood at Cambridge, Md.,
