The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-10-17
She Was Author of the Battle
Hymn of the Republic"-
Born in New York
WAS A LEADER N MOVEMENT
FOR BETTERMENT OF WOMEN
She and Her Husband Conducted m
Anti.Slayery Paper in Boston in
the Ante.Bellum Days and Were
Workers For General Good.


Middletown, R.. l., Ocs: 17.-asrs
Julia Ward Howe died at her ,sdrn-
mer home here today. N
Death was due to hss !. .dura -.
sulting from advanced u 'i.isnd : : s se-
we're cold recently. COZ -.cted. She
was 81 years old.
she was born in New York city on
May ~, 1873. Her ancestry, on her
Iather's side. included such men as
Roger Williams and Governor Samuel
war dof Rhode Island, while she was
INSTANTLY related to General Marion.
1amlllarly known as the "Swamn
FOX. Her father was a man Of
wealth and was president and founder
OF the New York Bank of Commerce.
The educational facilities in her
time were not very great, SO that she
was compelled to leave school at 16
years Of age. All the knowledge she
acquired afterwards was by means of
private tutors and through her own
individual efforts.
When Julia Ward was % years old
she spent the summer in Boston and
tnere met DR.. Samuel Gridley Howe.
whom she afterwards married.
week after she was married, in 1s43-
she and her husband went aboard IN
company with another bridal couple.
Dr. and Mrs. Horace Mann. Thew
visited different countries on the con-
tlnent and 1t was while Mrs. Howe
was IN Rome in March, 1914, that her
first child was born.
Ihe same year they returned to
America and took up their residence
IN Boston, where DR.. Howe was close.
ly identified with the Perkins institu.
ton for the blind. She and her nus.
band conducted an anti-slaverv na.
per In Boston before the war. After
the conficted she was deeply inter.
ested in such causes as wonan,s snf.
frage, prison reform, peace, etc., and
she was noted as a Unitarian writer
preacher and lecturer.
At this time it seemed that the fame
or Or. Howe would completely over
snadow that of his talented wife. In
MS early career he had fought In the
war for Greek independence and had
also aided the Poles in their struggle
FOR liberty. After his marriage he de-
voted himself chiefly to the work of
educating the blind. His fame is in
separately connected with the story of
Laura Bridgman, the unfortunate in
whom 1T Is scarcely an exaggeration
to say that he developed an intellect
and soul. At the age of 2 years
the chold lost sight and hearing
through scarlet fever, and conse-
quently soon forgot how to speak. In
this girl. to whom every avenue of
knowledge save feeling was closed.
DIR. Howe discovered a keen intellect.
He patiently experimental until he
had invented methods of communica-
tion and taught her to read, sew.
play the piano and communicate her
ideas. In this work DR.. Howe was
greatly aided by his wife.
During the course of her long life
Mrs. Howe was at the very forefront
OF many movements which had to do
with American literature, philan-
thropy and the emancipation of her
sex. From the early days of her
womanhood. she was a woman Of
consequence, a woman Of affairs. a
woman who had very high concep-
tion of the duties of life. Although of
the gentlest spirit, Mrs. Howe was for
years most ardent woman suf-
fragist.
Mrs. Howe was a frequent con-
tributor to some of the best maya
znes of the country. She was also a
poetess who found ready response
in the hearts of the people and then.
as an evidence of her versatility, she
turned her pen to play writing, at
which she was also successful. Per-
haps her most famous work was the
Battle Hymn Of the Republic"
which is taught to every school child
in the country today. This work was
written by Mrs. Howe after visit to
the camp of the army of the Potomac
during the war.
Mrs. Howe was one Of the organ
izers of the New England Woman's
club, which became one of the most
influential clubs of its kind in Ameri-
ca, and for many years was president
of the Massachusetts Federation of
Women's clubs.
As is natural with such mother,
Mrs. Howe's children have all won
distinctive places in life. Her only
son. Professor Henry Marion Howe, is
a prominent metallurgist in Columbia
university. Her eldest daughter,
Julia Romano, SO called from the city
where she was born, married young
Greek named Anagro. who was pro-
tege of Daphne, and became superin-
tendent of the Perkins institute for =
the blind. She died In early married
life. Her second daughter is the wife
of David P. Hall, living in New Jer-
sey. She is known as a writer and
lecturer. The third daughter, Maud.
is we'll known in society and liters-
ture. She married John Elliott. N