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740 and was a brave and skilful military leader. He took part in the border warfare of the west, and commanded at the defeat of Gen. Josiah Harmar on Miami river in October, 1790, and also at that of Gen. Arthur St. Clair at St. Mary's, 4 Nov., 1791. He was present, although not in command, at the battle of Fallen Timbers, in which the Indians were defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne, 20 Aug., 1794, having vainly endeavored to dissuade them from attacking the &ldquo;Chief-Who-Never-Sleeps,&rdquo; with whom he urged them to make peace. He was one of the signers of the treaty of Greenville in August, 1795. Early in 1797 he visited President Washington in Philadelphia, where he also met Count Volney, the French philosopher, and was presented by Gen. Kosciuszko with his own pair of elegantly mounted pistols.

LIVERMORE, Abiel Abbot, clergyman, b. in Wilton, N. H., 30 Oct., 1811. He was graduated at Harvard in 1833, and in the divinity-school in 1836, and was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Keene, N. H., in November of the latter year. He remained there until May, 1850, when he was called to a church in Cincinnati, Ohio. On 1 Jan., 1857, he removed to New York city to as- sume the editorship of the " Christian Inquirer," and in June of the same year he took charge of the 1st Unitarian Congregational church in Yonkers, N. Y., without relinquishing his journalistic duties. In 1863 he became president of the theological school at Meadville, Pa., which office he still (1887) fills. He is the author of " A Commentary on the New Testament " (6 vols., 1842-'81) ; " Lectures to Young Men " (1846) ; " The Marriage Offering," a compilation of prose and poetry (1848) ; " The War with Mexico Reviewed, a prize essay (1850) ; " Discourses " (1852) ; " Anti-Tobacco " (1883) ; and " History of Wilton, N. H," which will probably be published in 1888. He has edited Priestley's " Cor- ruptions of Christianity " (Boston, 1838), and, with others, "Christian Hymns" (1845), a compilation that has passed through sixty editions, besides con- tributing to the " North American Review," " Chris- tian Examiner," " Christian Repository," etc.

LIVERMORE, George, antiquarian, b. in Cam- bridge, Mass., 10 July, 1809; d. there, 30 Aug., 1865. He was educated at the public schools and trained for a mercantile career. After brief ex- periments elsewhere, he settled in Boston and be- came one of the foremost commission-merchants in that city. Early in life he began to devote his leisure to historical and antiquarian research, in which he became a recognized authority, having one of the finest collections of different editions of the Bible in this country. He was fond of large- paper copies and illustrated editions, in which his library was very rich. He was an active member of several learned societies, and wrote for the news- papers and reviews on subjects of a bibliographical or historical character, his articles displaying ex- tensive research. Among them may be mentioned one on the " New England Primer," in the " Cam- bridge Chronicle " (1849), and another on " Public Libraries " in the " North American Review " (1850). His most important essay, " An Historical Research respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens and as Soldiers," was read before the Massachusetts historical society, 14 Aug., 1862, printed in the '• Proceedings," and issued separately in four other editions. He was given the degree of A. M. by Harvard in 1850. See a sermon delivered in his memory by Rev. Edward E. Hale, entitled " The Public Service of a Private Man," and other trib- utes by Robert C. Winthrop and Charles Deane.

LIVERMORE, Mary Ashton, reformer, b. in Boston, Mass., 19 Dec, 1821. Her maiden name was Rice. She was noted in childhood for resolu- tion and restless activity, being foremost in all healthful, out-door sports, and also remarkable for proficiency in her studies. She was a pupil and for some time a teacher in the Charlestown, Mass., female seminary, and subsequently became a gov- erness in southern Virginia, where she remained two years, and then taught at Duxbury, Mass. There she met Daniel P. Livermore, a Universalist clergyman, whom she married and accompanied successively to Stafford, Conn., Maiden and Weymouth, Mass., Auburn, N. Y., and Quincy, 111., in which places he had pastorates. In 1857 he became editor and publisher of the "New Covenant" at Chicago. During this period Mrs. Livermore wrote frequently for the periodicals of her denomination, and edited the "Lily," besides assisting her husband for twelve years as associate in his editorial labors. At the beginning of 1862 Mrs. Livermore was appointed one of the agents of the northwestern branch of the U. S. sanitary commission, which had been then recently established in Chicago. During that year she travelled throughout the northwest, everywhere organizing sanitary aid societies. In the following December she attended a council of the National sanitaiy commission at Washington, and the next spring was ordered to make a tour of the hospitals and mili- tary posts on the Mississippi. At this time sani- tary supplies were low, and the most serious results at the v icksburg camps were feared ; but by per- sonal appeals, by circulars, and by untiring persist- ence and enthusiasm, she secured immediate relief. She also took an active part in the organization of the great Northwestern sanitary fair in Chicago in 1863, from which nearly $100,000 were secured for the purposes of the association, and obtained the original draft of his Emancipation proclama- tion from President Lincoln, which sold for $3,000. Since the war she has labored earnestly in the woman suffrage and temperance movements, often appearing on the platform, and editing the " Wom- an's Journal " (Boston, 1870-'l). Her success as a lecturer before lyceums has been great. At a time when those institutions were at the height of their popularity, she was one of the four lecturers that were most in demand and that commanded the largest fees, the other three being men. For years she spoke five nights in the week for five months in the year, travelling 25,000 miles annually. Among her more popular lectures are " What shall we do with our Daughters ? " " Women of the War," and " The Moral Heroism of the Temperance Reform." The first of the foregoing has been issued in book- form (Boston, 1883). She is the author of " Pen Pictures " (Chicago. 1865), and " Thirty Years too Late," a temperance tale (Boston, 1878). She has also prepared a work of 600 pages giving her ex- perience during the war, which will probably be issued during the present vear (1887).

LIVERMORE, Samuel, statesman, b. in Waltham, Mass., 14 May, 1732 ; d. in Holderness, N. H., 18 May, 1803. He was graduated at Princeton in 1752, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1757, beginning to practise the following year at Portsmouth, N. H. He was a member of the general court of that province in 1768-'70, and in 1775 removed to Holderness, of which he was one of the original grantees and the principal proprietor. He was appointed king's attorney in 1769, and after the change of government he was state's attorney for three years. He was also judge-advocate of admiralty before the Revolution, and a delegate to the