Introduction
Born: April 14, 1788, Concord, New Hampshire.
Died: March 30, 1868, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Buried: Germantown Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Born: April 14, 1788, Concord, New Hampshire.
Died: March 30, 1868, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Buried: Germantown Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Harriet was the daughter of Edward St. Loe Livermore (1762–1832), lawyer and United States representative from Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Samuel Livermore (1732–1803), United States senator from New Hampshire and president pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1796 and 1799.
She is remembered as a preacher and world traveler. Samuel Teasdale Livermore (1824–1892) wrote about her in Harriet Livermore, the Pilgrim Stranger
(Hartford, Connecticut: 1884).
She preached to the United States Congress in 1827, 1832, 1838, and 1843—American president John Quincy Adams was in her audience in 1827.
John Greenleaf Whittier's poem Snow-Bound has references to her.
God is present everywhere,
In heaven and earth, in sea and air,
O’er mountain tops, in valleys low,
Where the lofty forests bow;
In blackest night, or noonday clear,
God is present everywhere.
In the dashing torrent’s roar,
Or th’ threatening tempest’s power,
In the fragrant breeze of spring,
With the birds of loftiest wing;
Sun and moon and stars declare
God is present everywhere.
Most delightful is the thought,
Saints cannot go where God is not,
Present, to guard them by His power,
In every scene and every hour;
Even in death’s cold arms they sing,
Our souls are safe beneath His wing.
Harriet Livermore (1788–1868)