The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-10-17
JULIA WARD
HOWE Is DEAD
NOTED WOMAN PASSES AWAY AT
AGE OF NINETY ONE YEARS.
LONG CAREER OF USE
FuLNESS.

Middletown, r. l., oct. 17.-Julia
Ward Howe died at her summer home
here today. She was 81 years old.
Death was due tc heart failure. re-
suting from advanced age and a Sc
we're cold recently Contracted.
Julia ward Howe was born in New
York City on the eth day of May.
1919. Her ancestry, on her fathers
side, included such men as Roger Will
liams and Governor Samuel Ward of
Rhode Island. while she was distantly
related 10 General Marion. famiiiarly
known as the Swamp Fox" Her faith =
er was a man of wealth and was pres
ident 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 i'm Boston and
there met DIR. Samuel Gridley Howe,
whom she afterwards married. week
after she was married, i'm 1S43, she and
her husband went abroad In company
| with another bridal couple, DIR. and
Mrs. Horace Mann. They visited diff
ferent countries on the continent and
II was while Mrs Howe was in Rome
In March. 1914, that her first child
was born.
The same year they returned to
America and took up their residence
in Boston. where DR.. Howe was close
ly identified with the Perkins Insti-
tuition for the Blind. She and her hus-
band conducted an anti-savery paper
in Boston before the war. After the
conflict she was deeply interested in
such causes as woman's suffrage, pris-
on reform, peace, etc., and she was
noted as a Unitarian writer. preacher
and lecturer.
At this time Il seemed that the fame
of DIR. 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 de-
voted himself chiefly to the work ol
educating the blind. His fame Is in
separately connected with the story o
Laura Bridgman, the unfortunate II
whom II is scarcely an exaggeration e
say that he developed an intellect and
a soul. At the age of two years tho
child lost sight and hearing through
scarlet fever. and consequently soor
forgot how 10 speak. In this girl, 4
whom every avenue of knowledge saw
feeling was closed DIR. Howe discov
cred a keen intellect. He patiently ex
perimented until he had invented
methods of communication and taugh
her to read. sew, play the piano an'
communicate her ideas. In this worl
! DIR. Howe was greatly aided by hi
wife.
During the course of her long If
Mrs. Howe was at the very forefront
many movements which had to do wit
| IAmerican literature. philanthropy an
| the emancipation OF her sex. Fror
1.-THE early DAYS of her womanhood, sin
was woman of consequence, won
} an of affairs. woman who had yer
high conception of the duties Of lif'
Although Of the gentlest spirit, Mr'
| Howe was for years a most arden
r woman suffragist.
Mrs. Howe was a frequent contri
} butor to some of the best magazine
Of the country. She was also poet