Background
Livermore, Mary Ashton was born on December 19, 1820 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Timothy and Zebiah (Vose) Rice.
Livermore, Mary Ashton was born on December 19, 1820 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Timothy and Zebiah (Vose) Rice.
Educated in public schools and Charlestown (Massachusetts) Female Seminary. Taught school.
Doctorate. P. Livermore, 1845, Universalist minister (died 1899). Was active in anti-slavery and the Washingtonian temperance movements. Went to Chicago, 1857, where her husband became editor and she associate editor of a Universalist paper.
Was active in the United States Sanitary Commission during Civil war.
Was 1st president Illinois Woman’s Suffrage Association. Editor The Agitator, woman suffrage paper, 1869.
Merged it into the Woman’s Journal, 1870. Was editor of latter 2 years, removing to Boston.
Was 10 years president Massachusetts Women's Christian Temperance Union
Is president Massachusetts Woman’s Suffrage Association Has delivered lectures all over the United States and in England and Scotland. Author: My Story of the War, 1888. The Story of My Life, 1897.
Also “American Women” (edited by late Frances East. Willard and Mary A. Livermore), 1897.
Home: Melrose, Massachusetts
Married Review.