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Livermore, George

antiquarian, was born July 10, 1809, in Cambridge, Mass. He wrote for the newspapers and reviews on subjects of a bibliographical or historical character, his articles displaying extensive research. Among them may be mentioned one on the New England Primer, in the Cambridge Chronicle (1849), and another on Public Libraries in the North American Review. He died Aug. 30, 1865, in Cambridge, Mass.

LIVERMORE, MRS. MARY ASHTON [RICE], lecturer, author, was born Dec. 19, 1821, in Boston, Mass. She is a noted lecturer upon temperance and woman-suffrage whose home is in Melrose, Mass. She is the author of Superfluous Women, and Other Lectures; Pen Pictures; Thirty a Temperance Tale; Years Too Late:

What Shall we Do with Our Daughters?; and My Story of the War.

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