New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-24

rlage in 1916, at Fail River Mass Her husband
was Universalist minister, and in 1857 they went
TO Chicago. where Mr.. Livermore Editor and
proprietor Of THE New Covenant" Mrs. Liver
more became associate editor, and in her husbands
frequent absences had entire charge, She also did
much work for publishers in Boston and elsewhere.
She was one of the reporters at the Republican
convention which nominated Mr. Lincoln In Chi
in 1860. When the war broke out she became in
terested in the sanitary condition Of the soldier
camps. The Sanitary Commission was not long in
discovering that she would be q powerful ally, and
appointed her agent for the Northwest. She or
ganized colossal fairs for the purpose in Chi
cago under her direct supervision netting 100000.
Among other things, she secured the original draft
Of the Emancipation Proclamation from President
Lincoln. which she sold at this fair for 5000 In
the spring of 1853 she made tour OF the hospitals
and military posts the Mississippi River, and
warded OF scurVy by her prompt action.
After the war concluded she was in too
much demand to sit quietly back and retire to pri-
waite life. Besides she had been aroused on an
other subject during the war, which naturally led
her TO seek the public ear Before the war she
was not a believer in suffrage. Her nus
band had been taught from his earliest years by
! his mother that she had much right to vote as
his father. Through her husbands influence, and
even more from her observation of what women
could do during the war she became pronounced
| advocate Of woman suffrage. She was also led TO
advocate the cause Of temperance through her OBJ
servaton of the ruin wrought by the drink traffic
ana she spoke frequently in public these topics.
Her career public lecturer was marked with
much success, and she heard in nearly all the
larger cities Of the country Among the subjects
on which she lectured were What Shall We Do
with Our Daughters?" Women of the War and
Tine Moral Heroism Of the Temperance Reform"
In January. 1859, she established woman suffrage
paper, THE Agitator," at her own cost and risk
which eSpoused temperance reform as we'll as
woman suffrage. In January, 1870, The Womans
journal was established in Boston by Joint
stock company for tie advocacy OF woman suf-
Trage, and Mrs. IdVermorc received an invitation
to become Its editor in chief which she accepted
band disposed Of his paper and entire esta bllsI-
mcnt II Chicago, The family returned TO the East
ard atterWard resided in Melrose, Mass. For two
years Mrs. LiVernore edited The WOman's Jour
nal. when she resigned editorial work to give her
time entirely TO the lecture field For Twenty-Five
and was heard in the lyceum courses of the coun-
Try year after year in nearly every State Of the
Union. Well in England and Scotland.
volume of her lectures was published, entitled
What Shall We Do with Our Daughters? and
Other Lectures" She also published her war
the War which had sale of 6lG00 copies. Other
books from her pen are The Children's ARMY
Thrift Years Too Late" "A Mental 'Transfor1na
ton" Pen Pictures and The Story of NV Life
She edited, with Miss Frances i. Willard. 'AYper-
Women" For ten years Mrs. LivCrmore was
Temperance Union She was also president Of the
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association Her
husband died in 1899 Their golden wedding was
celebrated IN Boston in 1885 In 1896 TUFTS COLLEGE
honCrcd Mrs. Lvermore by comforting upon her
the degree Of Doctor Of Laws.