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PHIL LIVINGSTON was born in Schoharie County, New York, October 17, 1839, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Jenkins, in Madrid, Iowa, March 29, 1932. Burial was in the cemetery at Moingona. He removed to Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1862 and taught school and studied law, and in 1864 entered the Union Army as a quartermaster’s clerk, and was with Sheridan’s Army in the Shenandoah Valley. He remained in the army until the close of the war, then returned to Wisconsin, was admitted to the bar in 1866 and in 1867 removed to Iowa and became station agent for the Northwestern at Moingona. In 1870 he was elected clerk of courts of Boone County, was re-elected in 1872 and again in 1874, serving six years. Following that he returned to Moingona and became postmaster there. In 1883 he was elected representative and served in the Twentieth General Assembly. He was one of the founders of what is now the Boone County Abstract and Loan Company of Boone. Although admitted to the bar in Iowa and a member of the Boone County Bar Association, and practicing occasionally, he never actively entered the profession. His home remained in Moingona. He was prominent in the politics of the county for many years.