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THOMAS H. LIVEZEY, who holds a prominent and responsible position at the Pencoyd Iron Works of A. & P. Roberts & Co., is the only child of Samuel and Mary (Roberts) Livezey. He was born at Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1879.

Samuel Livezey, father, is the son of Thomas and Rachel (Richardson) Livezey. He was born at Plymouth Meeting, on the homestead now occupied by the family of T. Ellwood Livezey, his deceased brother, March 9, 1835. He was educated at Friends’ School, Plymouth Meeting, and also studied at Andalusia Academy in Bucks county. He was employed for a time on the farm, and then went to Chicago, where he was employed for several years in the large meat packing establishments of that city. He married, November 7, 1877, Mary, daughter of Hugh and Alice A. Roberts, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. The couple returned to Chicago, but came east on account of the illness of his father in about a year. His father died after a long illness, and their child was born, and they returned to Chicago, remaining there until 1884, when they returned east on account of the illness of his mother, with whom they made their home until her death, May 21, 1890. They removed soon afterwards to Norristown, erecting later a house at No. 908 West Marshall street, Norristown, in which Samuel and Mary Livezey still reside.

Thomas Hugh Livezey was educated at Friends’ School at Plymouth Meeting, and after the removal of the family to Norristown at the public schools of that borough, graduating from the Norristown high school in the month of June, 1897. He immediately secured a position in the Pencoyd Iron Works, where he began at the foot of the ladder, as it were, and worked his way by steady attention to business to his present position.

Thomas H. Livezey married, October 1, 1902, Joanna M., daughter of William, deceased, and Caroline R. Miller. The father of Mrs. Livezey was a teacher and later a farmer. Some years prior to his death he went into the tobacco business in Philadelphia with his brothers, and was very successful therein. The mother of Mrs. Livezey is a member of an old family of Gwynedd Friends, her father being Charles Roberts, a highly respected citizen of Whitpain township, who resided near Blue Bell. (For further particulars of the Miller family, see sketch of Dr. William G. Miller, elsewhere.)
Thomas H. Livezey is a member of the Society of Friends, as is also his wife. He has been for several years the clerk of Norristown Preparative Meeting. In politics he is a Republican, but has never participated very actively beyond depositing his ballot on election day.

(For further particulars of the Livezey family see sketch of T. Ellwood Livezey, elsewhere in this work.)