The Press., 1895-02-21
W. c. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
Mary A. LIyermore.
BY MARY KELLoGG PAHE.

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 Mary A. LivermoLe was born in Boston, Dec. 19, 1891. Her father was Timothy Rice, who served in the war of 1872. She was the eldest of six children, being de- seended from ancestors who had been Welsh preachers for six generations. She attended the Boston public schols, where she was great favorite. She was al- ways the champion of the poor children, and 8 cripple or 8 shabbily dressed child found in her ready sympathizer and de- fender. ~
 Like most children. she delighted in outdoor sports, sliding on the ice being her special enjoyment. One day, when she was about ten years old, after full Ihour's fun on the ice, she rushed into the house, exclaiming:
 F s'Oh, 1t is such fun; such splendid slid fng.' z s--
 'ssYes,' her father replied; ''its good fun for you, but wretched for shoes"
 The girl suddenly realized that with their limited means it was hard for the parents to buy shoes for so many, and from that day to this she never slid upon the ice again.
 She early gave evidence Of the latent talent which in later years gained for her the sobriquet of the Queen of the Amer jean Platform" for when but a child at her play she would gather the children Together in the woodshed, and set up fsticks to represent other children, so as to make her audience larger, and then would hold meeting, doing the preaching land praying. Her parents frequently wit messed these crude efforts, and her father would say, "How wish she was boy; then she might become minister" She graduated from the public school when but fourteen, but was so anxious to assist her parents in some way that she became fs dressmaker, and sewed for thirty-seven cents day. --.. { Fortune however smiled upon her, so that she was enabled to enter Charleston female seminary, where she was employ ed as teacher, and thus was enabled to Epay her own way until she had completed the course. After this she was employed as governess on plantation in Virginia for about three years, when she returned 3 rank abolitionist, and with 5000, which Eajhe had accumulated while there. She then assumed the charge of Duxbury high Iachool, whore she taught until she was ssss when she married Rev. Daniel F. ssiVermore, Universalist minister. He ssas first located in Fall River During
 heir early married life she accompanied Ter husband from town to town, as the
 ocafion of hIs pastorate was changed. I.s'hsee a dker came to bless their hosia, < eas onIsstis lta isk.ir5se WIG os,n1- plete. She organized literary societies among her husbands parishioneIs for their improvement and mental culture, Ibesides contributing to various publica- lions.
 In 1857 they removed to Chicago, where NIT. Liyermore became the proprietor and editor of the New Covenant, a religious weekly newspaper. His preference was for the ministry, but force of circum- stances caused him to engage in editorial work. For fifteen years Mrs. Livermore aided him in editing his paper, writing for it's various departments, besides fur nishing articles for different periodicals of the country. Had it not been for this and the breaking out of the civil war, she would probably, like many other noble women, be living to-day in some quiet parsonage, dispensing, in company with her husband, parochial duties. She would not be the famous lecturer and sanitary commissioner of the west.
 When Abraham Lincoln was nominated the first time for the presidency, in 1860, she was the only woman reporter who was allowed a place with the press. It was at this time that Mrs. Livermore practic- ally began her public work. In the days of the war she was ministering angel where most the ministries of prayerful, patient womenhood were needed.
 More than 8 quarter of century has passed away since the days when in the camp and on the field she and her coad tutors helped to heal the sick, kept sacred
 vigil by the dying, and did 8 thousand
 kindly things that only woman's instinc
 could devise and untiring love perfect fThe northwestern branch of the United
 States Sanitary Commission for the bet
 ter sanitary condition of the soldiers wal
 placed under her leadership. Her frs
 broad experience in the war was after th'
 battle of Fort Donelson, where there wer
 no hospitals for the wounded, who wer
 taken in rough wagons to St. Louis, man,
 dying on the way. The sanitary commis
 sion expended about fifty million dollar
 during the war, the women raising 8 larg
 proportion of it. Mrs. Ltverm ore wa one of the most efficient helpers in raising
 this money.
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