The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-18
AT Age of Ninety.0ne, Famous
Woman Closes Career Known
World Over.
GIFTED AS POET AND
STRONG AS PROSE WRITER
Known to Every School Child of
the Land for Her Battle
Hymn of the Republic.

Ward Howe is dead. Bowed under the
weight Of her 81 years. tho noted phil,
peacefully today to an attack of pnen-
| monia at her summer home here. The
| funeral will be held at the Church OF
the Disciples, Unitarian. in Boston
Julia Ward Howe was bern in New
york City on the eth day OF May. 1919
Her ancestry: on her fathers side. in
Gov. Samuel Ward Of Rhode Island, while
she was dstantly related to General
Marion famlliarly known as the swamp
Fox Her father was a man OF wealth,
and was president and founder OF the
Now York Bank OF Commerce,
The educational facilities in her time
were not very great; SC that she was COM
pc!led 10 leave school at 16 years of age.
All the knowledge she acquired afterward
was by means OF private tutors and
through her own individual efforts.
When Julia Ward was % years old age
spent the summer in Boston and there
met DR.. Samuel Gridlcy Howe, whom she
af$erward married. A week after she was
married, in 1S43, she and her husband
bridal couple. DR., and Mrs Horace Mann.
They visited different countries on the
continent and 1t was while Mrs. Howe
was In Rome In March. 1874, that her
first child was born.
Fight Against Slavery.
The same year they returned TO Amerl-
ca and took up their residence in Boston.
where DR.. Howe was closely identified
with the Perkins institution for the
blind. Before the war Or. and Mrs. Howe
conducted an anti-slavery paper in Bos-
ton. After the war Mrs. Howe was deep
-ly interested in such cases as woman's
suffrage, prison reform. peace, etc. and
she was also noted as d Unitarian writer
preacher and lecturer.
At that time it seemed that the fame
Of DR.. Howe would completely over
shadow that OF his talented wife. In his
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 devoted himself
chiefly 10 the work OF educating the blind.
His fame is insepara bly, connected with
the story OF Laura Bridgman, the unfor
tunate in whom it is scarcely an cHag-
seration 10 say that he developed an in
,ellcct and a. soul, At the age OF > years
the child lost sight and hearing through
scarlet fever, and consequently soon for
got how TO speak, In this girl, 10 whom
every avenue OF knowledge save feeling
was closed. DR.. 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.
Leader in Great Work.
During the course Of her long life Mrs
Howe was at the vclyN forefront OF many
movements which had To do with Ameri
can literature. philanthropy and the
emancipation Of her sex. From the early
days of her womanhood she was wop-
an or consequence. woman of affairs,
a woman who had very high concep
tion Of the duties OF NE. Although OF the
gentest spirit Mrs. Howe was for years
most ardent woman suffragist,
Mrs. Howe was a frequent contributor
10 some OF the best magazines Of the
country She was also a poctcss who
the people and then. as an evidence OF her
versatility. she turned her pen 10 play
writing. at which she was also successful.
PcrhaLs her most famous work was the
Battle Hymn OF the Republic" which is
taught to every school child i'll the coun-
Mrs. Howe after visit in the camp OF
the army of the Potomac during the war,
Mrs, Howe was one of the organizers
OF the New England Woman's club. which
became one OF the most influential clubs
of Its Kind In America and for many
years MAS president OF the Massachu |
sctts Federation Of Womcn'S clubs.
As is natural with such mother, Mrs !
Howe's children have all won distinctive |
places in life. Her only son. Prof Henry |
Marion Howe. is n prominent me talmrGist |
in Columbia university. Her eldest daugh- |
ter Julia Romana. SO called from the city
where she was born. married young
Greek named Anagro. who was a protcgc
OF Daphne. and became superintendent OF |
the Perkins institute for the blind She |
died in carly married life. Her second |,
daughter is the wife OF David p. Hall. I
living in New Jersey She is known as
a writer and lecturer. The third daugh- |
ter Maude is We'll known in society and !
literature She married John Elliott. an /
English painter Of rcpule.