Introduction

Biography

Abiel was the son of Jo­na­than Li­ver­more and Abi­gail Abbot, and ne­phew of hym­nist Sar­ah W. Li­ver­more. He mar­ried twice, to Eli­za­beth Dor­cas Ab­bot and Ma­ry A. Keat­ing.

He at­tend­ed Phil­ips Exe­ter Aca­de­my, Exe­ter, New Hamp­shire. He gra­du­at­ed from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty in Arts in 1833, and in Di­vi­ni­ty in 1836.

After or­di­na­tion as a Uni­ta­ri­an min­is­ter, he pas­tored in Keene, New Hamp­shire (1836); Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio (1850); and Yonk­ers, New York (1857) (where he al­so ed­it­ed the Chris­tian In­quir­er).

In 1863, he moved to Mead­ville, Penn­syl­van­ia, where he served as pre­si­dent of the Theo­lo­gic­al School un­til 1891.

Works

Livermore was chief ed­it­or of the Che­shire Pas­tor­al As­so­cia­tion’s Chris­tian Hymns in 1844.

His oth­er works in­clude:

• A Com­ment­a­ry on the New Tes­ta­ment (six vol­umes, 1842–81)
• Lectures to Young Men, 1846
• The Mar­riage Of­fer­ing, 1848
• The War with Mex­ico Re­viewed, 1850
• Discourses, 1852
• Anti-To­bac­co, with Rus­sell Lant Car­pen­ter (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Ro­berts Bro­thers, 1883)
• History of Wil­ton, New Hamp­shire, with Sew­ell Put­nam (Low­ell, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Mar­den & Row­ell, print­ers, 1888)