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Article: New stamp honors Julia Ward Howe
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 8, 1987
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Julia Ward Howe, the social reformer who wrote the lyrics of
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic," will be featured on a new 14-cent
stamp, the 36th in the Great American Series. The first day of
issue ceremonies will take place Thursday in Boston, 125 years after
the publication of her poem in the Atlantic Monthly, for which she
received $5.
Born in New York in 1819, she married Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe
and moved to Boston in 1843, where she became involved in
abolitionist activities. She assisted her husband in the publication
of the Commonwealth, a widely read periodical, worked for women's
rights and served as the president of the Women's International Peace
Association.
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