When John Malcolm Livingston was born on 12 July 1871, in Mosa, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Livingston, was 44 and his mother, Sarah Campbell, was 34. He died on 12 October 1873, in Alvinston, Brooke-Alvinston, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 2, and was buried in Kilmartin, Southwest Middlesex, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.