Julia Ward Howe
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Julia Ward Howe was an American author and poet, known for writing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as new lyrics to the song "John Brown's Body," and the original 1870 pacifist Mothers' Day Proclama
Howe in 1895
Portrait of Julia Ward Howe, by John Elliott, 1925
Is Polite Society Polite and Other Essays by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
The 1913 bas-relief plaque of Howe by Cyrus Dallin
Samuel Gridley Howe
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Samuel Gridley Howe was an American medical doctor, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind. He organized and was the first director of the Perkins Institution. In 1824, he went to Greec
Julia Ward Howe
…and the deaths of Samuel's wife, Emily, and their newborn child. Though raised an Episcopalian, Julia became a Unitarian by 1841. In Boston, Ward met Samuel Gridley Howe, a physician and reformer who had founded the Perkins School for the Blind. Howe had courted her, but he had shown an interest in her sister Louisa…
Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe painted in the dress of a Greek soldier by John Elliott. Elliott married Howe's daughter Maud Howe.
Perkins School, prior to 1915
Between 1863 and 1866, Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward Howe lived at 13 Chestnut Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston.