New stamp honors Julia Ward Howe

Chicago Sun-Times | February 8, 1987| | Copyright

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 ...

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