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References to Liouville go back to his 1847 result that a doubly periodic function without poles is identically constant, which does not yet contain the generalization to either harmonic functions or holomorphic functions.

I quote from Barry Simon, Harmonic Analysis: A Comprehensive Course in Analysis, Part 3 (page 197):

That any positive harmonic function is constant is due to Bôcher (1902), although the theorem is often named after Picard’s rediscovery (1923) — there is often reference to the Liouville–Picard theorem.

Bôcher states the theorem in a footnote:

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