Colin Hamilton Livingstone (June 3, 1863—February 1, 1943) was an American banker and a president of the Washington and Old Dominion Railway (W&OD RY), the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation in Alexandria, and the Washington and Virginia Real Estate Company.[1][2][3][4] He was also the first national president of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).[5]
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_(cropped).jpg) Livingstone, taken some time between 1905 and 1943 | |
| Born | Colin H. Livingstone June 3, 1863 |
| Died | February 1, 1943 (aged 79) |
Life and career
editLivingstone was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America, on June 3, 1863, and attended McGill University in Montreal.[1][6] He served as the president of the BSA from 1910 to 1925.[5] During that period, he also became the president of the W&OD RY, which was incorporated during 1911, and served as a vice-president of the American National Bank.[1][3][7]
Livingstone served as a private secretary to Senator Stephen Benton Elkins of West Virginia and as the clerk of the Interstate Commerce Committee of the United States Senate.[8]
Livingstone was the namesake of a 90 acres (0.4 km2) Arlington County, Virginia, subdivision, Livingstone Heights, and of a nearby W&OD RY station with same name.[4][9] Arlington's present 24th Street North was Livingstone Street, also named for Livingstone, until the County renamed its streets during 1935.[4]
Livingstone died at age 79 on February 1, 1943, in Fishersville, Virginia. He is buried with his wife, Anna Louise Van de Boe, within the churchyard of the Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack in Claverack, Columbia County, New York.[6]
See also
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Notes
edit- ^ a b c "Who's Who In Our City: Being President Seems to Be the Steady Occupation of This Banker, Who Gives a Sensible Recipe for Success". The Washington Herald. District of Columbia. March 30, 1919. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
President of the Washington and Old Dominion Railway, president of the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation, president of the Boy Scouts of America, vice president of the American National Bank. Colin H. Livingstone's job in this world is being president. .... he is also the director of about eight other corporations than those ready mentioned. .... He was born at St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, and was educated at McGill University, Montreal
- ^ (1) "Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation". George Washington Memorial Parkway. United States Department of the Interior: National Park Service. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2020..
(2) Jones, Devry Becker (July 22, 2020). Ruppenstein, Andrew (ed.). "A World War I Shipyard Transforms Jones Point: From Shoals to Ships: — 1918-1921 —". Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org). Archived from the original on February 5, 2021. Retrieved February 5, 2020.During World War I (1914-1918), the U.S. government targeted Jones Point as the site for a private shipyard, one of 111 built to aid the war effort. The Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation yard, constructed just before war's end, was designed to build standardized steel cargo ships.
. - ^ a b "Reports of Electric Railways: Washington And Old Dominion Railway". Appendix to Fourteenth Annual Report of the State Corporation Commission of Virginia For The Year Ending December 31, 1916. Richmond, Virginia: Davis Bottom, Superintendent Public Printing. 1917. p. 1204. Retrieved February 5, 2021 – via Google Books.
Date of organization—May 2, 2011 .... President .. Colin H. Livingstone .. Washington, D.C.
- ^ a b c "Old Dominion Citizens' Association Neighborhood Conservation Plan" (PDF). Government of Arlington County, Virginia. pp. 8–10. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 28, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2021..
- ^ a b Peterson, Robert W. (1984). "Chapter 2: Birth of the BSA". The Boy Scouts: an American adventure. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company. pp. 50, 245. ISBN 0828111731. LCCN 84016748. OCLC 1148008546. Retrieved February 5, 2021 – via Internet Archive.
Colin B. Livingstone, a Washington banker, was elected temporary chairman. He would later serve for 15 years as the BSA's first president.; 1910: • November 22 — Colin B. Livingstone elected president pro-tem of the BSA.
- ^ a b (1) "Obituary". New York Times. February 2, 1943.
- ^ Harwood, p. 45. "On May 12, 1911 they organized the Washington & Old Dominion Railway as the Great Falls & Old Dominion's corporate successor."
- ^ "Testimony of Colin H. Livingstone, Banker, Of Washington, D.C.". Campaign Contributions: Testimony Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, United States Senate, Sixty-second Congress, Third Session. Vol. 1. 1913. p. 849. OCLC 669364501. Retrieved February 5, 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ Harwood, p. 141. "GREAT FALLS DIVISION: .... Livingstone Heights".
References
edit- Harwood, Herbert H. Jr. (April 2000). Rails to the Blue Ridge: The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad, 1847 – 1968 (PDF) (3rd ed.). Fairfax Station, Virginia: Northern Virginia Parks Authority. ISBN 0615114539. LCCN 77104382. OCLC 44685168. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2021..
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