Sarah White Livermore

Sarah White Livermore (1789–1874) was a 19th-century American teacher and writer of fugitive poetry and prose. She was a lyricist of several hymns, and a magazine writer as well. Livermore spent most of her life teaching school. With Phebe Abbot, she established a Sunday school in Wilton, New Hampshire in May 1816, connected with the Congregational church. It was one of the first, if not the first, in the U.S. to be devoted especially and wholly to religious instruction.

Biography Sarah White Livermore was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, July 20, 1789. She was the ninth child and fourth daughter of Rev. Jonathan Livermore (1729–1802) and Elizabeth Kidder Livermore (1745–1822).

Her father was the first settled minister in Wilton, on December 14, 1763.

Livermore taught schools frequently in Keene, New Hampshire.

Selected works

Non-fiction articles "Industrial Education"

Books Poplars and alders ever quivering play'd, 1825 History of the town of Wilton [N.H.], 1888

Hymns "Almighty Father, Condescend" "Awake, O church, thy strength put on" "Father, who of old descended" "For the Church at Wilton" "Glory to God, and peace on earth" "Hymn of Ordination" "Our pilgrim brethren dwelling far" "The Coming of Christ" "The Western Churches" "What precept, Jesus, is like thine"

Poems "The Burdock"