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LIVERMORE

1862, and traveled extensively through Europe. In 1838 Whittier secured for her audiences in Philadelphia and elsewhere, and the proceeds of her lectures and the assistance of friends kept her from actual want. Siie finally died in an almshouse in Philadelphia, and her friend, Mrs. Margaret F. Worrell, conveyed her remains to her own home in Germantown and they were placed in the Dunkards' burying ground. She is the author of: A Narrative of Religious Experiences. Ill Twelve Letters (1826); A Wreath from Jessa- mine Lawn, a religious novel; Millennial Tidings (1831); .-1 Testimony for the Times (1843); and a score of other books, mostly religious, and poems, hymns and sermons used by the Dunkards. She died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 30, 1868.

LIVERMORE, Mary Ashton (Rice), reformer, lecturer and autiior, was born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 19, 1820; daughter of Timothy and Zebiah Vose (Ashton) Rice: granddaughter of Silas and Abigail (Hagar) Rice and of Capt. Nathaniel and Rachel (Glover) Ashton of London, England, and a de- scendant of Edmund Rice, who came from England, and settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639. She attended the Hancock school, Boston, Mass., and was graduated from the Female Seminary at Charlestown, Mass., in 1838, having earn- ed her tuition by ilaujj4^&>0,uA.<rrt, teaching in the jun- ^ ' ior department of the

seminary throughout her course. She was in- • structor in Latin, French and Italian there, 1838-41; a governess in Virginia, 1841-43, and principal of a school in Duxbury, Mass., 18- 42-45. She was married. May 6, 1845, to the Rev^ Daniel Parker Livermore of Leicester, Mass., a Universalist minister. They .settled in Fall River, Mass., whei'e he had a pastorate and from there she accompanied him to Connecticut, New York and Illinois. Mr. Livermore was an earnest believer in woman suffrage, and she soon became a strong supporter of the movement. She was active in anti-slavery work and in the Washingtonian temperance movement, and for years wrote, organized and labored for that re- form. She removed to Chicago, 111., in 1857, where her husband became proprietor and editor and she associate editor of the New Covenant, a Universalist paper. In 1862 she was appointed agent ^f the U.S. Sanitary Commission, with headquarters at Chicago, and with others di-

rected and carried on the hospital relief work of the Northwest, organizing soldiers' aid .societies, collecting sanitary supplies, and detailing nurses to the ho.spitals. She served as a member of the special relief corps in 1863, which visited lios- pitals and camps on the Mississijipi river, and worked their way among the suffering soldiers besieging Vicksburg. She made her first public speech in Dubuque, Iowa, where she presented to the people the sanitary needs of the soldiers at the front and in the hospitals. In that same year, with Mrs. Hoge, she organized the Northwestern fair which netted ^100,000 for the commission. Woman suffrage engrossed her active energies, and in 1869 she started TJie Agitator to aid the reform, and in 1870 she returned to Boston, where she edited the Woman's Journal, into which her own paper was merged until 1872. She resigned her position to enter the lecture field, her lecture topics including biographical, historical, political, religious and reformatory subjects, and as a lecturer she traveled over 25,000 miles annually, visiting every state in the Union, and also Scotland and England. She or- ganized and was the fii'st president of the Illinois Woman Suffrage association, 1869; president of the American Woman Suffrage association, 1880, and was sent to the Massachusetts Republican convention, charged with the presentation of temperance and woman suffrage resolutions. She was the first president of the Woman's Con- gress, 1872-73; first president of the Massachu- setts Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874-84, and of the Beneficent society- of the New England conservatory of Music, 1884-1900. She became a member of the Massachusetts Ladies' Aid Society, of the Massachusetts Soldiers' Home, of the Massachusetts Woman's Indian association, of the Massachusetts Prison associa- tion and of the American Psychical society. She edited A Woman of the Century with Frances E. Willard (1893); and is the author of: The Chil- dren's Army (1848); A Mental Transformation (1850); Pen Pictures (1865); Thirty Years Too Late (1878); What Shall We Do u-ith Our Daughters? (1883); My Story of the War (1888); Autobiography (1897); and many contributions to periodical literature.

LIVERHORE, Samuel, statesman, was born in Waltham, Mass., May 14. 1732 (O.S.); son of

Samuel and (Brown) Livermore; and a

descendant in the fourth generation from John Livermore, of Exeter, England, who settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1635. He entered the Col- lege of New Jersey in 1751, and was graduated A.B., 1752, A.M., 1755. He was admitted to the bar in 1756, and practised for a short time in Walthani and then in Portsmouth, N.H. He was married, Sept. 23, 1759, to Jane, daughter of the