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Louisa E. Litzsinger

Author of "He wept in blood for me" in Living Songs for the Sunday School, the Epworth League, Prayer Meetings, Revivals

Author of "The Pierced Prince" 20th Century Currently, our only data on Lively is that he was a minister, and that his song "The Pierced Prince" appeared in Rodeheaver’s Gospel Solos and Duets Number 3 (Winona Lake, Indiana: The Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company, 1938), number 55. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/i/v/lively_jm.htm

Ora M. Livengood

Person Name: O. M. Livengood Composer of "[Like a dream our life is passing]" in Glory Bells

Abiel A. Livermore

1811 - 1892 Author of "A holy air is breathing round" Livermore, Abiel Abbot, D.D. was born at Wilton, New Hampshire, Oct. 30, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in Arts, in 1833; and Divinity, 1836. The latter year he was ordained as a Unitarian Minister, and became Pastor at Keene, New Hampshire, 1836; Cincinnati, 1850; Yonkers, New York, 1857. In 1863 he removed to Meadville, Pennsylvania, as the President of the Theological School. Dr. Livermore is the author of various works, and was the chief editor of the Cheshire Pastoral Association's Christian Hymns, 1844, one of the most widely circulated and estimable of American Unitarian collections. To that collection he contributed "A holy air is breathing round" (Holy Communion), which has passed into several collections, including Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907), p. 680

H. Livermore

Author of "Daniel's wisdom may I know, Stephen's faith" in The Church Hymn Book

Mary Ashton Livermore

1820 - 1905 Author of "As to their holy place" Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (Mrs. D.P.). (December 19, 1821 [sic]--May 23, 1905). Her husband was a Universalist minister. She was a noted writer, editor, and lecturer; associate director of the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War; and a prominent leader in the causes of temperance and women's suffrage. She published The Story of My Life in 1897. She was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Tufts College in 1896. A hymn written by her beginning "Jesus, what precept is like thine" is included in Hymns New and Old, 1895. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Sarah White Livermore

1789 - 1874 Author of "Almighty Father, condescend" Livermore, Sarah White, aunt of A. A. Livermore (q.v.), was born at Wilton, New Hampshire, July 20, 1789; and died there July 3, 1874, having spent most of her life as a Teacher. Two hymns were contributed by her to the Cheshire P. A.'s Christian Hymns, 1844:— (1) Glory to God, and peace on earth, Christmas. (2) Our pilgrim brethren, dwelling far. Missions. She wrote many others, of which two are given in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, 1875. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)