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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 804 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city, municipal, See also:county and See also:parliamentary See also:borough, and seaport of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 201 M. N.W. of See also:London by See also:rail, situated on the right See also:bank of the See also:estuary of the See also:Mersey, the centre of the city being about 3 M. from the open See also:sea. The See also:form of the city is that of an irregular semicircle, having the See also:base See also:line formed by the docks and quays extending about 9 M. along the See also:east bank of the estuary, which here runs nearly See also:north and See also:south, and varies in breadth from i to 2 M. On the north the city is partly bounded by the borough of See also:Bootle, along the See also:shore of which the line of docks is continued. The See also:area of the city is 16,619 acres exclusive of See also:water area. The See also:population at the See also:census of 19o1 was 684,958; the estimated population in 1908 was 753,203; the See also:birth-See also:rate for 1907 was 31.7 and the See also:death-rate18.3; in 1908 the rateable value was 4,679,52o. The city lies on a continuous slope varying in gradient, but in some districts very steep. Exposed to the western sea breezes, with a dry subsoil and excellent natural drainage, the site is naturally healthy. The old borough, lying between the See also:pool, now completely obliterated, and the See also:river, was a conglomeration of narrow alleys without any regard to sanitary provisions; and during the 16th and 17th centuries it was several times visited by See also:plague. When the See also:town See also:expanded beyond its See also:original limits, See also:plantation school in See also:southern See also:Virginia; and for three years conducted a school of her own in See also:Duxbury, See also:Mass. Upon returning from Virginia she had joined the abolitionists, and she took an active See also:part in the Washingtonian See also:temperance See also:movement.' In 1845 she married See also:Daniel See also:Parker See also:Livermore (1819—1899), a Universalist clergyman. In 1857 they removed to See also:Chicago, See also:Illinois, where she assisted her See also:husband in editing the religious weekly, The New See also:Covenant (1857—1869).

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Civil See also:War, as an See also:associate member of the See also:United States Sanitary See also:Commission,and as an See also:agent of its North-western See also:branch, she organized many aid See also:societies, contributed to the success of the North-western Sanitary See also:Fair in Chicago in 1863, and visited See also:army posts and hospitals. After the war she devoted herself to the promotion of woman's See also:suffrage and to temperance reform, See also:founding in Chicago in 1869 The Agitator, which in 1870 was merged into the Woman's See also:Journal (See also:Boston), of which she was an associate editor until 1872. She died in See also:Melrose, Mass. on the 23rd of May 1905. She had been See also:president of the Illinois, the See also:Massachusetts and the See also:American woman's suffrage associations, the Massachusetts Woman's See also:Christian Temperance See also:Union and the Woman's See also:Congress, and a member of . many other societies. She lectured in the United States, England and See also:Scotland, contributed to magazines and wrote: The See also:Children's Army (1844), temperance stories; See also:Thirty Years Too See also:Late (1848), a temperance See also:story; A See also:Mental Transformation (1848); See also:Pen Pictures (1863), See also:short stories; What Shall We Do With Our Daughters? and Other Lectures (1883); My Story of the War (1888); and The Story of My See also:Life (1897). With Frances E. See also:Willard, she edited A Woman of the See also:Century: See also:Biographical Sketches of Leading American See also:Women (1893).

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