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Show DEATH OF JULIA WARD HOW E. End of Career of Gifted Authoress and Philanthropist. Middletown, R. I. Julia Ward Howe is dead. Bowed under the weight of her 91 years, the noted philanthropist and authoress succumbed peacefully to an attack of pneumonia at her home on Monday. Julia Ward Howe was born in New i'ork City on the 27th day of May, 1319. During the course of her long life Mrs. Howe was at the very forefront Df many movements which had to do tvith American literature, philanthropy and the emancipation of her sex. From the early days of her womanhood woman-hood she was a woman of conse-juence, conse-juence, a woman of affairs, a woman vho had a very high conception of ;he duties of life. Although of the gentlest spirit, Mrs. Howe was for years a most ardent woman suffragist. Mrs. Howe was a frequent contributor contribu-tor to some of the best magazines of the country. She was also a poetess who found a ready response in the hearts of the people and then, as an' ;vidence of her versatility, she turned her pen to play writing, at which she vas also successful. Perhaps her most famous work was the "Battle 3ymn of the Republic" which is taught to every school child in the country today. |