Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1910 — JULIA WARD HOWE DEAD [ARTICLE]

JULIA WARD HOWE DEAD

Author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" Passes Away. Julia Ward Howe, author of the ‘Bettie Hymn of the Republic.” d ed at Middletown, R. I. aged,ninety-one. The famous author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic’' succumbed quietly to old age. Always a woman ot singularly broad interests, Mrs. Howe was one of the striking figures Of the half-century that culminated in the civil war. She attained distinction in the fields of literature, politics and philanthropy, and her exalted par trlotism furnished the northern soldiers with the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” , Mrs. Howe has been a Unitarian preacher, a lecturer, and a pioneer in the causes of anti-slavery', prison reform. woman suffrage, education of the blind, and cause of in crrafjcnal >