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was twice married; first, May 17, 1838, to Eliza- beth D. Abbot, of Windham, who died Sept. 13, 1879; and secondly, June 18, 1883, to Mrs. Mary A. (Keating) Moore. He received from Har- vard the degree of A.M. in 1872 and that of S.T.D. in 18- 88. He edited Priest- ley's Corruptions of ChristianUrj (1838); and with others, Christian Hymns (18- 45); and is the autlior of: A Commentary on the New Testa- ment (6 vols. 18- 42-81); Lectures to Young Men (1846); The Marriage Offer- ing, prose and poetry (1848); The War with Mexico Reviewed, a prize essay (ISoO); Discourses (1852); Anti-Tobacco (1833); The History of Wil- ton (1888). and contributions to periodicals. He died in Wilton. N.H.. Nov. 28'. 1892.

LIVERflORE, Arthur, jurist, was born in Lon- donderry, N.H., July 26, 1766; son of Samuel (q. V.) and Jane (Browne) Livermore. He worked on his father's farm in Holderness, N.H., 1774- 85, receiving a classical education under the tuition of his parents. He studied law with his brother, Edward S. Livermore; was admitted to the bar; settled in practice at Chester, N.H.; was a representative in the general court of New Hampshire, 1794 and 1795, and solicitor for Rockingham county, 1796-98. He returned to Holderness in 1798 and was associate justice of the superior court, 1799-1809; chief justice, 1809- 13; associate justice of the supreme court, 1813- 16; a Democratic representative in the 15th, 16th andlSth congresses, 1817-21 and 1823-25; judge of the probate for the county of Grafton, 1822-23, and chief justice of the court of common pleas, 1825- 32. He was a presidential elector on the John Adams ticket in 1800. He was married to Louise Bliss of Haverhill, Mass. He died at his farm in Cainpton. N.H., July 1, 1853.

LIVERHORE Edward St. Joe, representa- tive, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., April 5, 1762; son of the Hon. Samuel (q. v.) and Jane (Browne) Livermore. He studied law in New- buryport in the office of Theophilus Parsons, and settled in practice, first at Concord in 1783 and then at Portsmouth. He was U.S. district at- torney for the district of New Hampshire, 1789- 97; a member of the state constitutional conven- tion, 1791; state's attorney for Rockingham county, 1791-93; justice of the supreme court. 1797-99, and naval officer at Portsmouth, 1799-

1802. He removed to Newburyport, Mass., in 1803 and was a representative from Essex count}' in the 10th and 11th congresses, 1807-11. He re- moved to Boston, Mass., in 1811 and in 1815 to Zanesville, Ohio, but returned to Boston and finally settled in Tewksbury, Mass. He was married in 1783 to Mehitable, daughter of Robert Harris and secondly, in 1799. to Sarah Crease, daughter of William Stackpole of Boston. Mass. He died in Tewksbury. Mass.. Sept. 15, 1832.

LIVERMORE, George, antiquarian, was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 10, 1809; a descend- ant of John Livei'more of Ipswich, England, who settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1634. He attend- ed the academy at Deerfield, Mass.. 1827-28; was employed as a clerk in Cambridgeport and other towns near Boston, 1828-38, and in 1838, in com- pany with an older brother, engaged in the wool business in Boston. He was married Oct. 1, 1839, to Elizabeth Cunningham Odiorne of Cam- bridgeport. He made a collection of scarce articles of historic value; large paper edi- tions of rare books, and one of the finest collec- tions of Bibles in the United States, including a copy of Eliot's Indian Bible. He was a trustee of the state library of Massachusetts, 1849-65. He was elected to membership in the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences in 1855 and other learned societies. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1850. He was an assistant editor of Graham's " History of the United States " (1846). and the author of numerous biblio- graphical and historical articles, including "New England Primer " in the Cambridge Chronicle (1849), and " Public Libraries," in the North American Revieiv (1850). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 30, 1865.

LIVERflORE, Harriet, preacher and author, was born in Concord, N.H., April 14, 1788; daughter of Edward St. Loe (q. v.) and Mehit- able (Harris) Livermore. She became a teacher at East Haverhill, Mass., in 1811. She was erra- tic in her religious belief, being an Episcopalian, 1802-18; a Congregationalist, 1818-25; a Baptist, 1825; a Second Adventist, and was prevented from joining the Society of Friends through a sudden burst of temper while at a Friend's house in Amesbury. In January, 1827, she addressed the two houses of congress in the Hall of Representa- tives, Washington, D.C., on religion. President Adams and Secretary Clay being present, the first time a woman had addressed a congressional assembly in their hall. She subsequently spoke before three other administrations. Slie made a journey of ftOOO miles tlirough the wilderness of the far West to teach the Indians. She also spent some time among the Dunka'ds in Penn- sylvania, wlierp her sermons werp wp'l i-pfT-ived. She made several visits to Jerusalem, the Inst in