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New Market. Throughout all the trials and hardships of the war, and, indeed, they were many, he bore himself bravely and courageously, and was honorably discharged from the United States service on October 10, 1864, at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.     His marriage with Mary, a daughter of Peter Berkebile, resulted in the birth of ten children; eight sons and two daughters.     April 24, 1890, Dr. Livingston and Miss Lavina Stutzman, a daughter of Stephen Stutzman, were united in marriage, and to their union one son, Robert Lloyd, has been born.     Dr. Livingston was educated in the schools of Somerset county, and afterwards taught eight consecutive terms in the public schools of that county. In 1887 he entered the office of Dr. George Conrad, of Johnstown, under whose preceptorship he continued three years. The following year, 1888, he entered the Eclectic Medical institute, of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated June 4, 1891; since which time he has been engaged in active and successful practice in Johnstown. In the autumn of 1893, in order to more thoroughly qualify himself for the practice of his profession he took a post-graduate course in the Polyclinic college, of Philadelphia. In addition to his general practice, he makes a specialty of the nose and throat, in which he has met with success.     Dr. Livingston is a live, progressive young physician, and takes an active interest in every movement which has for its object the advancement and promotion of the science of medicine. He is a member of the Central Medical Association of Pennsylvania, and the Eclectic medical Association of the State. Dr. Livingston is not in the ordinary acceptance of the term a politician, but believing in pure citizenship, he takes an intelligent

interest in local, state and national politics, such an interest as every citizen should take, and upon such an interest the safety of our nation depends. He affiliates with the Republican party, but has never aspired to office. He is a member of Speer Orr Camp, No. 14, Sons of Veterans, of Johnstown. CARL RIVINIUS, a successful and prosperous merchant and highly respected citizen of Ebensburg, this county, is a son of Gotleib Ferdinand and Mrs. Catherine (Kusterer, nee Haish) Rivinius, and was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, July 4, 1845.     Catherine Haish's first husband was a Mr. Kusterer, and their marriage union resulted in the birth of five children, one of whom, Ernest Kusterer, came to America in 1852, and probably settled in Pennsylvania, but his whereabouts has never been positively ascertained.     Carl Rivinius was educated in the common schools of his native country and by private instruction. He served a full apprenticeship of four years in the Fatherland at the watchmaker's trade. He then worked ten years at the trade in that country as a journeyman, and in 1874 he crossed the Atlantic, seeking a home in the new world; for two years he followed journey work in this country.     In 1875 he came to Ebensburg, and established a watch-repairing and jewelry business on his own account in the fall of 1876. His motto has been “Upward and Onward,” and he has gone ahead adding to his stock and expanding his business until he now has a store that would do credit to many of the stores of a similar kind in the larger cities.     In religious faith and practice he is a Lutheran, having joined that church before coming to this country. Fraternally Mr. Rivinius is a member of Highland Lodge, No 428, I.

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