The William K. Livingston Papers were received from his daughter-in-law Katherine Livingston in 1996 with one additional box on 10 October 1997.

William Kenneth Livingston was born on October 21, 1892, in Sparta, Wisconsin to John W. Livingston and Sarah F. (Burr) Livingston. He received his BA in 1913 from the University of Oregon, and married Ruth Forbes Brown shortly thereafter, on February 28, 1914. They had two sons, Kenneth Edwin (1914-84) and Robert B., both of whom followed their father's footsteps into neuroscience.

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Collection is open for research, with the following exceptions: Folders in Boxes 3, 4 and 5 are restricted. Contact the manuscript curator at the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, History and Special Collections Division, for information on access to these files.