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432 she took the lead in making arrangements for a woman's suffrage convention in Chicago, which was in 1868; and when the Illinois Women's Suffrage Association was organized she was elected its president. To further promote the interests of the great reform movements, suffrage and temperance, she started in January, 1869, a weekly paper called the Agitator, which she conducted successfully for a year in Chicago. Then it was merged in the Woman's Journal, established in Boston in January, 1870, by a joint stock company, and she was made its editor-in-chief. The Livermore family then returned to Massachusetts, and have since resided in Melrose. For two years Mrs. Livermore edited the Woman's Journal, and then resigned that position and all other work, to devote herself to the lecture field, which has witnessed her severest toil as well as her most signal triumphs. For nearly thirty years she has spoken from platform and pulpit on a variety of topics, religious, reformatory, sociological, historical, and ethical, and has lectured in nearly every State of the Union, and also in England and Scotland. In these later years her itinerary extends not far from the home fireside. Still, wherever she speaks, whether as presiding officer of a memorial meeting, where a tender tribute is paid to the gracious memory of a departed leader, or at a biweekly meeting of the Massachusetts Suffrage Association, of which she is president, or to voice a need of the hour, people crowd to hear, and are moved by the old-time fluent force and earnestness, the vivid expression of her powerful personality, which every good cause is sure to arouse.

Mrs. Livermore has written all her life for the magazines of the day, the York Tribune, Ladies' Repository, Youth's Companion, North American Review, Inclejiendent, Chautauquan, Arena, and other periodicals. Among the books which she has published are: "What shall we do with our Daughters?" "Thirty Years too Late" (illustrative of the Washingtonian reform), "My Story of the War" (of which nearly a hundred thousand copies were sold), and her Autobiography.

She has recently passed through the great sorrow of her life, in the death of her husband, with whom she had been united in marriage fifty-four years.

The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Mrs. Livermore in 1896 by Tufts College. She was for ten years president of the Massachusetts W. C. T. U.; has been president of the American Woman's Suffrage Association; president of the Association for the Advancement of Women; is president of the Massachusetts W' Oman's Suffrage Association; president of the Beneficent Society of the New England Conservatory of Music; is a life member of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, of Boston; a member of the Massachusetts Indian Association, the Woman's Relief Corps, the Massachusetts Woman's Prison Association, and other societies, and of various literary clubs. She is practically a Unitarian in religion, holding to a creedless Christianity that shows itself in love and work, and trusting ever in the Eternal Goodness that rules both this life and that which is to come, of which this is the beginning.

NNA M. LELAND BAILEY, ex-Regent of Paul Revere Chapter, D. A. R., of Boston, and President of the West Newton Women's Educational Club (1903), was born in Somerville, Mass., a daughter of John Murray Leland and his wife, Sophronia Page Savage. The Lelands were among the pioneer families of Middlesex County, Henry Leland, from whom John Murray Leland was a descendant in the seventh generation, becoming an inhabitant of Medfield in 1652, his home being in that part of the town which in 1674 was incorporated as Sherborn. Isaac Leland, a great-grandson of Henry and great-grandfather of John Murray Leland, removed about the year 1774 from Massachusetts to Rindge, N.H., He was a soldier of the Revolution, being a private in Captain Philip Thomas's company in 1775, and in 1777 a private in Captain Samuel Blodgett's company, "raised by the State of New Hampshire for the Continental service."

He died in the army, September 3, 1777. (Revolutionary Rolls of New Hampshire and History of Rindge, N.H.)