Livermore (Mary Rice) is born in Boston.

The daughter of strict Baptist parents, Mary Rice Livermore attends the female seminary in Charlestown, and, after working as a tutor in the South, becomes a committed abolitionist. Returning to Boston, she marries Rev. Daniel Patrick Livermore in 1845, and moves with him to Chicago, where she founds The Agitator, a suffragist paper, and is one of the founders of the American Woman Suffrage Association. Returning to the Boston area, she succeeds Lucy Stone as editor of the Woman’s Journal, and serves as president of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, and then the American Woman Suffrage Association. She goes on to become a temperance advocate and a well-known speaker throughout the U.S. and in Europe. Livermore dies in May on May 23, 1905, in Melrose.