she took the lead in making arrangements for
a woman's suffrage convention in Chicago,
which was in 1868; and when the Illinois
W^omen's Suffrage Association was organized
she was elected its president. To further pro-
mote the interests of the great reform move-
ments, suffrage and temperance, she started
in January, 1869, a weekly paper called the
Agitatorj which she conducted successfully for
a year in Chicago. Then it was merged in the
Woman^s Journal^ established in Boston in
Jaunary, 1870, by a joint stock company, and
she was made its editor-in-chief. The Liver-
more family then returned to Massachusetts,
and have since resided in Melrose. For two
years Mrs. Livermore edited the Woman's
Journal, and then resigned that position and
all other work, to devote herself to the lecture
field, which has witnessed her severest toil as
well as her most signal triumphs. For nearly
thirty years she has spoken from platform and
pulpit on a variety of topics, religious, reforma-
tory, sociological, historical, and ethical, and
has lectured in nearly every State of the Union,
and also in England and Scotland. In these
later years her itinerary extends not far from
the home fireside. Still, wherever she speaks,
whether as presiding officer of a memorial
meeting, where a tender tribute is paid to the
gracious memory of a departed leader, or at
a biweekly meeting of the Massachusetts Suf-
frage Association, of which she is president, or
to voice a need of the hour, people crowd to
hear, and are moved by the old-time fluent
force and earnestness, the vivid expression of
her powerful personality, which every good
cause is sure to arouse.
Mrs. Livermore has written all her life for the magazines of the day, the New York Trib- une, Ladies' Repository, Youth's Companion, North American ReviexD, Independent, Chauiaji- quan, Arena, and other periodicals. Among the books which she has published are: "What shall we do with our Daughters? "Thirty Years too Late (illustrative of the Washing- tonian reform), "My Story of the W^ar" (of which nearly a hundred thousand copies were sold), and her Autobiography.
She has recently passed through the great sorrow of her life, in the death of her husband, with whom she had been united in marriage fifty-four years.
The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Mrs. Livermore in 1896 by Tufts College. She was for ten years president of the Massachusetts W. C. T. U.; has been presi- dent of the American Woman's SuflErage Asso- ciation; president of the Association for the Advancement of Women; is president of the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association; president of the Beneficent Society of the New England Conservatory of Music; is a life mem- ber of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, of Boston; a member of the Massachu- setts Indian Association, the Woman's Relief Corps, the Massachusetts Woman's Prison As- sociation, and other societies, and of various literary clubs. She is practically a Unitarian in religion, holding to a creedless Christianity that shows itself in love and work, and trusting ever in the Eternal Goodness that rules both this life and that which is to come, of which this is the beginning.
ANNA M. LELAND BAILEY, ex-Regent of Paul Revere Chapter, D. A. R., of Boston, and President of the West Newton Women's Educational Club (1903), was born in Somerville, Mass., a daughter of John Murray Leland and his wife, Sophronia Page Savage. The Lelands were among the pioneer families of Middlesex County, Henry Leland, from whom John Murray Leland was a descendant in the seventh generation, becoming an inhabitant of Med-
field in 1652, his home being in that part of
the town which in 1674 was incorporated as
Sherborn. Isaac Leland, a great-grandson of
Henry and great-grandfather of John Murray
Leland, removed about the year 1774 from
Massachusetts to Rindge, N.H. He was a soldier
of the Revolution, being a private in Captain
Philip Thomas's company in 1775, and in
1777 a private in Captain Samuel Blodgett's
company, " raised by the State of New Hamp-
shire for the Continental service."
He died in the army, September 3, 1777. (Revolutionary Rolls of New Hampshire and History of Rindge, N.H.)
