 Olivia was also a proponent of women's rights, and surrounded herself with influential women including Julia Beecher and Isabella Beecher Hooker.In 1895 and 1896, Olivia and her daughter, Clara, accompanied Samuel on his around-the-world lecture tour, which he undertook to pay off his debts.The next year, their daughter Susy, who had remained at home in the US, died of spinal meningitis at age 24, a devastating blow to Olivia.