Livermore, Mary

Mary (1821-1905), an American reformer and lecturer. Her maiden name was Mary Ashton Rice. She was a native of Boston. She was married in 1845 to the Rev. D. P. Livermore, a Universalist minister--an anti-slavery lecturer. In 1862 Mrs. Livermore was made northwestern agent of the United States Sanitary Commission with headquarters at Chicago. She was noted as a lecturer in the interest of woman's suffrage and temperance. She was for many years president of the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association and of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She wrote several books, including Pen Pictures, Thirty Years Too Late, My Story of the War, and The Story of My Life. Her list of lectures included Women of the War, The Moral Heroism of the Temperance Reform, What Shall We Do With Our Daughters? etc. See Howe; Stanton; Willard; Anthony