[4] At the age of ten, she left Scotland with her parents, and the family settled in the U.S.[1] She was educated in the public schools of Glasgow and of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

[1] She graduated from St. Xavier's Academy, Providence, Rhode Island, 1892,[3] and from the New York Missionary Training School (now, Alliance University,[1] 1895.

Benjamin Thomson Livingston (1869–1948),[3] a Baptist minister who also emigrated from Scotland, and who became the general secretary of the Evangelistic Association of New England.

In this work, she traveled throughout the U.S., pleading from platform, in legislative halls, on street corners, and in parlor meetings that her gender be given the full privileges of the ballot.

In the same year, the National WCTU's department of Temperance and Labor was changed to Women in Industry, and placed under a committee of three, consisting of Livingston, Culla J. Vayhinger, and Lenna Lowe Yost.

[6] In 1920, Livingston was a delegate to the World's WCTU Convention in London, and at that time, made a survey of women in industry in the British Isles and the Continental countries.

[1] In the same year, when the complete enfranchisement of women in the U.S. occurred, the National WCTU's Suffrage department was then merged into that of Christian Citizenship, with Livingston as the leader.

She prepared a textbook on Christian Citizenship, Studies in Government (1921) that was later used by thousands of White Ribboners, and was popular with the Young People's Branch.

[1] In the same year, in response to an urgent appeal from the WCTU of South Africa, she made a three-month tour of that country, speaking in universities and preaching in many of the large churches of Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Stellenbosch.

"[7] Her strong, sane, thought-compelling messages gave a remarkable impetus to the anti-alcohol movement in South Africa.

[3] After suffering a nervous collapse in the spring of 1923, Livingston was brought to her summer home in Osterville, Massachusetts, where she grew steadily weaker, and died August 5, 1923.