and was a brave and skilful military leader. He took part in the border warfare of the west, and commanded at the defeat of Gen. Josiah Harmar on Miami river in October, 1790, and also at that of Gen. Arthur St. Clair at St. Mary's, 4 Nov., 1791. He was present, although not in command, at the battle of Fallen Timbers, in which the Indians were defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne, 20 Aug., 1794, having vainly endeavored to dissuade them from attacking the “Chief-Who-Never-Sleeps,” with whom he urged them to make peace. He was one of the signers of the treaty of Greenville in August, 1795. Early in 1797 he visited President Washington in Philadelphia, where he also met Count Volney, the French philosopher, and was presented by Gen. Kosciuszko with his own pair of elegantly mounted pistols.
LIVERMORE, Abiel Abbot, clergyman, b. in
Wilton, N. H., 30 Oct., 1811. He was graduated
at Harvard in 1833, and in the divinity-school in
1836, and was ordained pastor of the Unitarian
church in Keene, N. H., in November of the latter
year. He remained there until May, 1850, when
he was called to a church in Cincinnati, Ohio. On
1 Jan., 1857, he removed to New York city to as-
sume the editorship of the " Christian Inquirer,"
and in June of the same year he took charge of the
1st Unitarian Congregational church in Yonkers,
N. Y., without relinquishing his journalistic duties.
In 1863 he became president of the theological
school at Meadville, Pa., which office he still (1887)
fills. He is the author of " A Commentary on the
New Testament " (6 vols., 1842-'81) ; " Lectures to
Young Men " (1846) ; " The Marriage Offering," a
compilation of prose and poetry (1848) ; " The
War with Mexico Reviewed, a prize essay (1850) ;
" Discourses " (1852) ; " Anti-Tobacco " (1883) ; and
" History of Wilton, N. H," which will probably be
published in 1888. He has edited Priestley's " Cor-
ruptions of Christianity " (Boston, 1838), and, with
others, "Christian Hymns" (1845), a compilation
that has passed through sixty editions, besides con-
tributing to the " North American Review," " Chris-
tian Examiner," " Christian Repository," etc.
LIVERMORE, George, antiquarian, b. in Cam-
bridge, Mass., 10 July, 1809; d. there, 30 Aug.,
1865. He was educated at the public schools and
trained for a mercantile career. After brief ex-
periments elsewhere, he settled in Boston and be-
came one of the foremost commission-merchants in
that city. Early in life he began to devote his
leisure to historical and antiquarian research, in
which he became a recognized authority, having
one of the finest collections of different editions of
the Bible in this country. He was fond of large-
paper copies and illustrated editions, in which his
library was very rich. He was an active member
of several learned societies, and wrote for the news-
papers and reviews on subjects of a bibliographical
or historical character, his articles displaying ex-
tensive research. Among them may be mentioned
one on the " New England Primer," in the " Cam-
bridge Chronicle " (1849), and another on " Public
Libraries " in the " North American Review "
(1850). His most important essay, " An Historical
Research respecting the Opinions of the Founders
of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens
and as Soldiers," was read before the Massachusetts
historical society, 14 Aug., 1862, printed in the
'• Proceedings," and issued separately in four other
editions. He was given the degree of A. M. by
Harvard in 1850. See a sermon delivered in his
memory by Rev. Edward E. Hale, entitled " The
Public Service of a Private Man," and other trib-
utes by Robert C. Winthrop and Charles Deane.
LIVERMORE, Mary Ashton, reformer, b. in
Boston, Mass., 19 Dec, 1821. Her maiden name
was Rice. She was noted in childhood for resolu-
tion and restless activity, being foremost in all
healthful, out-door sports, and also remarkable for
proficiency in her studies. She was a pupil and
for some time a teacher in the Charlestown, Mass.,
female seminary, and subsequently became a gov-
erness in southern Virginia, where she remained
two years, and then taught at Duxbury, Mass.
There she met Daniel P. Livermore, a Universalist
clergyman, whom she married and accompanied
successively to Stafford, Conn., Maiden and Weymouth, Mass., Auburn, N. Y., and Quincy, 111., in which places he had pastorates. In 1857 he became editor and publisher of the "New Covenant" at Chicago. During this period Mrs. Livermore wrote frequently for the periodicals of her denomination, and edited the "Lily," besides assisting
her husband for twelve years as associate in his
editorial labors. At the beginning of 1862 Mrs.
Livermore was appointed one of the agents of the
northwestern branch of the U. S. sanitary commission, which had been then recently established in Chicago. During that year she travelled throughout the northwest, everywhere organizing sanitary aid societies. In the following December she attended a council of the National sanitaiy commission at Washington, and the next spring was
ordered to make a tour of the hospitals and mili-
tary posts on the Mississippi. At this time sani-
tary supplies were low, and the most serious results
at the v icksburg camps were feared ; but by per-
sonal appeals, by circulars, and by untiring persist-
ence and enthusiasm, she secured immediate relief.
She also took an active part in the organization
of the great Northwestern sanitary fair in Chicago
in 1863, from which nearly $100,000 were secured
for the purposes of the association, and obtained
the original draft of his Emancipation proclama-
tion from President Lincoln, which sold for $3,000.
Since the war she has labored earnestly in the
woman suffrage and temperance movements, often
appearing on the platform, and editing the " Wom-
an's Journal " (Boston, 1870-'l). Her success as a
lecturer before lyceums has been great. At a time
when those institutions were at the height of their
popularity, she was one of the four lecturers that
were most in demand and that commanded the
largest fees, the other three being men. For years
she spoke five nights in the week for five months in
the year, travelling 25,000 miles annually. Among
her more popular lectures are " What shall we do
with our Daughters ? " " Women of the War," and
" The Moral Heroism of the Temperance Reform."
The first of the foregoing has been issued in book-
form (Boston, 1883). She is the author of " Pen
Pictures " (Chicago. 1865), and " Thirty Years too
Late," a temperance tale (Boston, 1878). She has
also prepared a work of 600 pages giving her ex-
perience during the war, which will probably be
issued during the present vear (1887).
LIVERMORE, Samuel, statesman, b. in Waltham, Mass., 14 May, 1732 ; d. in Holderness, N. H., 18 May, 1803. He was graduated at Princeton in 1752, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1757, beginning to practise the following year at Portsmouth, N. H. He was a member of the general court of that province in 1768-'70, and in 1775
removed to Holderness, of which he was one of the original grantees and the principal proprietor. He was appointed king's attorney in 1769, and after the change of government he was state's attorney for three years. He was also judge-advocate of admiralty before the Revolution, and a delegate to the
