27 Facts About Rose Livingston

Rose Livingston realized, though, that there was much good that she could do in New York.

Rose Livingston was born in New York State most likely in 1876.

Rose Livingston was reportedly raised in Ohio and Texas in the Methodist faith.

Rose Livingston was initially interested in becoming a foreign missionary, but decided she could be an independent missionary in New York City after she saw a drug-crazed girl being rescued.

Rose Livingston found that there was an auction on the Lower East Side of New York where girls and women were sold.

Rose Livingston looked for enslaved girls in opium dens, dance halls, and bars, particularly in New York City's Chinatown and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Rose Livingston had a masculine looking face and she wore short hair and men's clothing, which allowed her to blend in at dance calls and other night spots when she went in search of girls to rescue.

Rose Livingston saved an eight-year-old girl who had been kidnapped and taken to Philadelphia, after being asked by her father to find his daughter.

Rose Livingston motioned that she had a gun in her pocket and waited for the police, who arrested the men.

Rose Livingston went on high-speed chases in taxis to save girls.

Rose Livingston was aware of the fact that it was a difficult process to transition back into a family, so she did not believe in rushing girls back to their parents' homes.

Rose Livingston suggests a remedy and sounds a warning to mothers and fathers.

Rose Livingston asked all women to be more understanding of children, so that they did not want to run away from home.

Rose Livingston suggested that cities hire plain-clothed police women to patrol vice-ridden districts to prevent girls from being led into slavery.

Rose Livingston asked parents to talk to their daughters about the danger of being taken, without terrorizing them.

Rose Livingston used part of her salary to pay for clothes and food for the girls she rescued.

Rose Livingston was supported, financially and socially, by Harriet Burton Laidlaw, as well as other noted suffragettes across the country, and James Lees Laidlaw.

Rose Livingston lectured across the country about the prevalence of white slavery.

The Rose Livingston Committee issued an annual report of the freed girls and convicted people who were the slaveholders.

Rose Livingston was severely beaten, shot, wounded, and thrown out windows.

Rose Livingston had severe neuritis and persistent neuralgic pain due to a fracture of the alveolar process of the upper jaw bone.

Rose Livingston was pushed from a roof of the red-light district in Brooklyn.

Rose Livingston carried a gun with her, but was never known to have shot at anyone.

Rose Livingston lived in cold water flats and had a very frugal lifestyle.

Rose Livingston was cared for by neighbors who helped her obtain a supplemental Social Security pension and did chores for her.

Rose Livingston particularly needed help once she started to lose her sight.

Rose Livingston died on December 26,1975, at 99 years of age.