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his qualifications to adjudge an obstacle-driving class for coach- 

 man, he displaced one driver from his box and performed so 

 much more brilliantly than any contestant that his critic was 

 subdued. He was a lover and appreciative critic of art, music 

 and literature, and a notable gentleman athlete. He trained his 

 son in his private gymnasium in the foundations that made him 

 a brilliant star at Yale. It is related that he disarmed a French 

 fencing master in a bout with the foils at Lafayette. 



In his later years, Mr. Levering undertook additional respon- 

 sibilities. He became president of the Columbia National Bank 

 at Indianapolis, Manager of the HoxiE Estate and Mallory 

 Commission Co. of Chicago, and director and advisor of the 

 Indian Refining Co., of which his son was president. His death 

 occurred December 1, 1909, at sixty and one-half years of age. 

 He was the personal friend of every employee, an unostenta- 

 tious philanthropist, and a sympathetic friend. His early death 

 left a serious gap in all of his social and business connections. 



