Robert Linlithgow Livingston (1876-1925)

He was 18 when he became a clerk in the Kountze Brothers bank. When he married the senior partner's daughter in 1902, two years later he was admitted as a partner. However, the celebration was short-lived as just one month later, his wife died. He moved in with his first cousin, the Countess de Laugier-Villars, at 311 Fifth Avenue, and on a trip to Europe several years later he met and fell in love with “the richest girl in Denver,” Marie Sheedy who was described as being "popular among the younger set in New York... (she) attended nearly all of the dances and entertainments given by the younger society girls in New York." They were married in 1911 at her father's red brick mansion in Denver, and the wedding gifts included, "a residence in New York (41 East 75th Street) and a rope of pearls to the bride from her father." However, news of the wedding did not seem to be well-received by his first father-in-law, Luther Kountze, and as soon as he returned from honeymoon he resigned from Kountze Brothers. In 1912, he went into the brokerage business on his own account as Adams, Livingston & Davis.

In 1916 the architect Odgen Codman, Jr. designed them a new home (12 East 96th Street) opposite his own. They summered at  “The Ledges” in Magnolia, Massachusetts, before purchasing (1921) "Balleylock" at Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. They had five children who their mother took to France after he died in 1925, only returning to the States in World War II. They are the grandparents of U.S. Congressman/Lobbyist Bob Livingston.