On February 9, 1918, he was married to Margaret "Peg" Allen (1894–1961). Peg had been born in Chicago, raised in New York, and graduated from Brearley School. She helped organize the Western Reserve Women's Republican Club of Cuyahoga County, Ohio and from 1953 to 1957, she chaired the Cuyahoga County Republican Party's Women's Committee, and in 1952 and 1956, she was an alternate delegate to those Republican National Conventions. Together, Liv and Peg were the parents of four children: