American journalist, abolitionist and advocate of women's rights
Mary Livermore
Livermore in 1867
Born
Mary Ashton Rice (1820-12-19)December 19, 1820 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
May 23, 1905(1905-05-23) (aged 84) Melrose, Massachusetts
Occupation
Journalist, abolitionist, women's rights advocate
Notable works
My Story of the War
Spouse
Daniel P. Livermore
(m. 1845)
Relatives
Mary Livermore Barrows (granddaughter)[1]
Mary Livermore House in Melrose, Massachusetts
Mary Ashton Livermore (néeRice; December 19, 1820 – May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights. Her printed volumes included: Thirty Years Too Late, first published in 1847 as a prize temperance tale, and republished in 1878; Pen Pictures; or, Sketches from Domestic Life; What Shall We Do with Our Daughters? Superfluous Women, and Other Lectures; and My Story of the War. A Woman's Narrative of Four Years' Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps and at the Front during the War of the Rebellion. She wrote a sketch of the sculptor Anne Whitney for Women of the Day and delivered the historical address for the Centennial Celebration of the First Settlement of the Northwestern States in Marietta, Ohio on July 15, 1788.[2]
When the American Civil War broke out, Livermore became connected with the United States Sanitary Commission, headquarters at Chicago and performed a vast amount of labor of all kinds by organizing auxiliary societies, visiting hospitals and military posts, contributing to the press, answering correspondence, and other things incident to the work done by that institution. She was one of those that helped organize the great fair in 1863, at Chicago, when nearly $100,000 was raised and for which she obtained the original draft of the Emancipation Proclamation from President Lincoln, which was sold for $3,000, and funded the building of the Soldiers' Home.[2]
When the war was over, she instituted a pro-women's suffrage paper called the Agitator, which was afterwards merged in the Woman's Journal. Of that she was an editor for two years and a frequent contributor thereafter. On the lecture platform, she had a remarkable career, speaking mostly on behalf of women's suffrage and temperance movements. For many years, she traveled 25,000 miles (40,000 km) annually and spoke five nights each week for five months of the year.[2]
^Tapley, Harriet Silvester, ed. (1936). "Asa Bushby, Artist, and Some of His Portraits". Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society. 24: 15.
Mary Ashton Livermore (née Rice; December 19, 1820 – May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights. Her printed...
MaryLivermore Norris Barrows (June 30, 1877 – March 1, 1955) was an American politician. She represented Melrose in the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
go). After meeting MaryLivermore, she was appointed a field agent for the Northwestern branch of the Sanitary Commission. Livermore also helped Bickerdyke...
and, fearless of shell or bullet, among the last to leave." In 1890, MaryLivermore authored a book, My story of the war: a woman's narrative of four years...
son of Daniel Saunders Sr. He married a MaryLivermore (not MaryLivermore), granddaughter of Samuel Livermore. Daniel Jr. was a lawyer and the 6th mayor...
ones, while receiving wages and sharing the hardships of the men. MaryLivermore, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, and Annie Wittenmeyer played leadership roles. After...
Esther Tarbell supported women's rights and entertained women such as MaryLivermore and Frances E. Willard. Ida Tarbell was intelligent—but also undisciplined...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Frances Willard, Mary Church Terrell, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Anna Howard Shaw. Stanton served...
Mary Rice may refer to: Mary Sophia Hyde Rice (1816–1911), American missionary MaryLivermore (1820–1905), née Mary Rice, American journalist Mary Spring...
city of Livermore, California is named for him. He was born in Springfield, Essex in England, to Robert Livermore and Mary Cudworth. Livermore was a stonemason's...
use the area for free speech. The eastern side of campus includes the Livermore Library, Oxendine Science Building, Old Main, and Wellons Hall, among...
of the women's suffrage newspaper, the Woman's Journal, along with MaryLivermore, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Lucy Stone, and Henry B. Blackwell. He...
edu. Elizabeth Blackwell. Blackwell, along with Emily Blackwell and MaryLivermore, played an important role in the development of the United States Sanitary...
ones, while receiving wages and sharing the hardships of the men. MaryLivermore, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, and Annie Wittenmeyer played leadership roles. After...
ones, while receiving wages and sharing the hardships of the men. MaryLivermore, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, and Annie Wittenmeyer played leadership roles. After...
chronologically by year of birth. Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) MaryLivermore (1820-1905) Emma Maria Pearson (1828-1893) Katherine Prescott Wormeley...
1817 – James J. Archer, American lawyer and general (d. 1864) 1820 – MaryLivermore, American journalist and activist (d. 1905) 1825 – George Frederick...
Jessie Bartlett Davis, American actress and singer (b. 1860) May 23 – MaryLivermore, American advocate of women's rights (b. 1820) May 26 – Alphonse James...
movement like "Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Eunice Newton Foote, MaryLivermore, and Isabella Beecher Hooker." Institutionalized neglect of women's...
Emancipation Proclamation. (This draft had been donated by Lincoln to nurse MaryLivermore for her to auction to raise funds to build Chicago's Civil War Soldiers'...
Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Spanish realist novelist (born 1824) May 23 – MaryLivermore, American journalist and women's rights activist (born 1820) July 13...
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