Caroline Sealy Livermore
Caroline Sealy Livermore | |
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Born | Caroline Sealy August 7, 1883 |
Died | February 2, 1968 | (aged 84)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Conservationist |
Known for | California landmarks and parks in early 20th century |
Notable work | Mount Livermore, highest peak on Angel Island named after her |
Caroline Sealy Livermore (7 August 1883 – 2 February 1968)
Livermore was Chairman of Women's Committees on the
Biography
Caroline (née Sealy) Livermore was born on 7 August 1883, in Galveston TX, to George Sealy, a business man, and Magnolia (née Willis) Sealy. She married Norman B Livermore, an engineer cum businessman from a wealthy and well known family. He had his own firm in the 1930s which was later renamed to Norman B. Livermore & Sons in 1938 with his sons as share holders. They moved to the glades of Ross to the north of Mill Valley in 1930 with their five sons: Norman Banks, George Sealy, John Sealy, Horatio Putnam, and Robert.[5][3] Her husband was also represented on many corporate boards and in the Marin Republican Party central committee. In this county she took to the task of conservation as an "indefatigable warrior for the green cause". They had built up a reputation in the county and her sons were also well established professionally.[3]
In the 1930s, Livermore took up the matter of conservation of Marin County by first pursuing stoppage of the degradation of the slopes of
Livermore was also honorary chair of the Point Reyes National Seashore Foundation, and with her efforts the foundation could move the government to pass the park bill in 1962, a legislation for a national seashore.[6]
Caroline Livermore died on 2 Feb 1968, in San Francisco CA.[6]
References
- ^ a b c "Caroline Sealy Livermore". The State of California. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Caroline S. Livermore". YWCA and San Francisco and Marin Organization. 1990. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ a b c Walker 2009, p. 88.
- ^ Foundation 1935, p. 43.
- ^ White 1967, p. 15.
- ^ a b Walker 2009, p. 91.
External links
Bibliography
- Foundation, Protestant Episcopal (1935). Cathedral Age. Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation.
- Walker, Richard (1 October 2009). The country in the city: the greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98973-0.
- White, James Terry (1967). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. University Microfilms.