William H. Livingood (23d J.D., Berks), born April 5, 1837; died October 22, 1906. Admitted to the Bar January 19, 1860.
He was a son of Dr. John B. Livingood, of Womelsdorf, Berks County. Four of his brothers became memnbers of the medical profession, and another, Jacob S. Livingood, seventeen years his senior, a member of the Bar.
He attended the Womelsdorf Academy, and the Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, from which latter he was graduated in 1857. He then took a two-years' course at the Law School of Harvard College, and was admitted to the Bar at Lowell, Massachusetts, and susequently to the Berks County Bar. As a lawyer he was able and resourceful, and gifted with rhetorical talents, was a graceful and effective speaker. Of scholarly taste and acquirements, he was connected in his youth with numerous associations for mental culture and civic advancement. From 1873 to 1879 he practised his profession with success in the several courts of Philadelphia.
Source: Report of Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Biography, pp. 60-61.
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