Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — Author of 'Mary Had a Little Lamb.” [ARTICLE]

Author of 'Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, the famous editor, cook and patriot, to whom we owe our national Thanksgiving day, is the author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” She wrote the poem in 1829. Dr. Lowell Mosan composed the music, and the poem was published by Marsh, Capon <fc Lyon, of Boston, in 1830. There was no real Mary. Mrs. Hale had a pet lamb when a child, which followed her to school, and she used the incident in the famous poem. A few years ago it was said that Mary Tyler, of Summerville, Mass., was the Mary of the poem, which was written in 1817 by John Rollstone, but Mrs. Hale proved her claim to the authorship