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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 Mattory 
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. 
