Mrs. Mary A. Livermore

Mary Livermore, born Mary Ashton Rice (December 19, 1820 - May 23, 1905), was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate for women's rights. When the U.S. Civil War began, it began contacting the United States Sanitary Commission, headquartered in Chicago, which carried out a huge number of different tasks: organized supportive societies, visited hospitals and military posts, contributed to the press, responded to correspondence, and other things related to the work done by this institution. She was one of those who helped organize a big fair in Chicago in 1863 when about $ 100,000 was raised, and for which she received the initial draft Proclamation of Exemption from President Lincoln, which was sold for $ 3,000. When the war ended, she established the Agitator newspaper, which was subsequently consolidated in the Women's Journal. Of this, she was an editor for two years and a frequent writer after that. On a lecture platform, she made a wonderful career, speaking mainly for women's suffrage and abstinence. For many years she traveled 25,000 miles (40,000 km) annually, performing five nights each week for five months a year. Her printed volumes included: Thirty Years Later, first published in 1847 as a tale of abstinence, and reprinted in 1878; Pen Pictures; or “Notes from Family Life,” what should we do with our daughters? Extra women and other lectures. My story of the war. A female story about four years of personal experience as a nurse in the Union Army, as well as in helping at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front during the war against rebels. “Women of the Day,” she wrote a sketch by sculptor Miss Ann Whitney; and to celebrate the centenary of the first settlement in the northwestern states of Marietta, Ohio, on July 15, 1788, she delivered a historic address.