Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-10-18
JULIA WARD HOWE
Noted Authoress and Phi
|anthropist Passes Away.
Was Beloved Champion Of
Many Worthy Causes.
Worldwide Sympathy viii b Ex-
tended the Family.

MldlletoWn. IL. l., Oct. lf-JuHd
Ward Howe is dead. Bowed under the
weight of her 81 years, the noted phil
anthropist and authoress. succumbed
today to an attack of pneumonia. The
end came peacefully in the cottage In
this town. just outside of Newport.
built by her husband more than 80
years ago and since then her regular
summer home. The three surviving
daughters were at their mothers bed
side when she passed away, but her
son was absent. The remains will be
taken 10 Boston on Thursday next and
on the same day the funeral will be
held at the Church Of the Disciples,
ITntar0n. where for many years she
had been q parshioner and friend of
the venerable pastor. Rev. DR.. Charles
&C. AmcS.
1t was DR.. Alnes who said of Mrs.
Howe on one Of her recent birthdays:
Through the storm and stress of
the world. Mrs. Howe has always Kept
alIcat. finding life preserver in her
faith, hope and love"
Those who knew her intimately said
that her unfailing optimism was the
great resource and support of her
manifold activities. Born in cultur-
ed home in New York city and educat-
ed with care, she showed from her
earliest youth remarkable avidity for
study and superior literary tastes. She
was but 22 years of age when she
came to Boston and met DR.. Samuel
Gridley Howe. the great philanthrop-
iSt. and two years later they were mar
rcd. From that time until DR.. Howe's
death in 1875 this remarkable couple
showed a never-tiring co-partnership
Of activity in all things making for
the uplift of mankind.
After her husbands death, Mrs.
Howe continued her work by pen and
mouth for many worthy cause up to
the very end. She had shared her hus-
bands labors for the Greeks in their
struggle for independence: she had as
sisted him in his anti-slavery work
and fired the nation with her Battle
Hymn of the Republic;" she had Joined
heartily in the crusade for woman
suffrage: then, in the last year of her
life she pleaded the cause of the little
children by participating in a public
hearing at the State House and urging
that action be taken to insure pure
milk for infants.
Although perhaps best known on her
literary side as the author of the
Battle Hymn of the Republic" Mrs.
Howe was the author of many other
poems, of which she had published
several volumes, and Of many prose
works. She was one of the most pro-
life contributors to the Woman's
Journal, the woman suffrage publica-
ton, of which she was a founder. Her
works included volumes recounting
her travels with her husband in Greece
and Cuba.
Mrs. Howe was peculiarly blessed in
her children. One. Julia, became the
wife Of Michael Anagnos and actively
assisted him in his work for the blind
up to the time of her death. OF the
other three daughters. Mrs. Florence
| Howe Hall is "a prominent woman suf-
fragist. Mrs. Laura +. Richards is a
talented authoress. and Mrs. Maude
Howe Elliott is the wife Of John Ell
| lott, the artist and is the authoress OF
several books, Her son, Prof. Henry
Marion Howe, is professor of metal
iurgy at Columbia University.
Few women have lived so long and
distinguished a life as Julia Ward
Howe and to all classes in this country
and the world over her death will mean
a Instinct loss.
The funeral of Mrs. Howe will be
held at p. M. Thursday from the
! Church of the Disciples, Boston. The
remains will be taken to Boston in a
| special car attached to the o'clock
| train from Newport on that morning.
Burial will be In the family lot at Mt.
AUBURN cemetery, Cambridge The
list OF bearers, made public tonight,
includes five grandsons and three
grandsons-in-law. The grandsons
| are: John Richards. Henry Hall Rich
| ards, John Howe Hall. Henry Marion
Hall and Samuel Prescott Hall. The
others are the Rev. Hugh b. Birckhead,
Charles Wiggin and Carlton Shaw.
The chimes on Claiming Memorial
| church in Newport. where Mrs Howe
| mad attended services for many years