Charles Herbert (Livermore) Levermore (1856 - 1927)

Born 15 Oct 1856 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States

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Died 20 Oct 1927 at age 71 in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States

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Biography

Charles (Livermore) Levermore is Notable.

• Peace activist
• PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1885
• Professor of History, MIT
• Founder & first president (1896-1912) of Adelphi University

He was born Charles Herbert Livermore at Mansfield, Connecticut, on 15 Oct 1856, the son of Rev. Aaron Russell Livermore and Mary Gay (Skinner) Livermore. As a young man, he changed his name from Livermore to Levermore.^[1]

In 1870, Charles H. Livermore, 13, was living with his parents at Lebanon, Connecticut.^[2]

He was a distiguished educator and author. There is an extensive biography of him in the 1902 Livermore genealogy.^[1]

He died at Berkeley, California, on 20 Oct 1927, at the age of 71.^[3]

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Walter Eliot Thwing, The Livermore family of America (Boston, 1902), pages 315-317
2. ↑ Aaron R. Livermore family, in United States Census, 1870, database with images, FamilySearch > Connecticut > New London > Lebanon Town > household 72 > family 81 > image 9 of 56; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ Death index entry for Charles H. Levermore, in California Death Index, 1905-1939, database with images, FamilySearch > 1905-1929 > Lem, Lep-Rouse, Roy > image 19 of 870; Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.

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• US Census, 1900 (Brooklyn, NY)
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