Howe (Julia Ward) is born in New York City.

The daughter of Samuel and Julia (Rush) Ward, Julia Ward Howe marries Samuel Gridley Howe in 1843,* and subsequently moves with him to a new home at today’s 3 Story Street. She initially complains, “I cannot swim about in this frozen ocean of Boston life.” But after becoming acquainted “with the Boston of the teachers, of the reformers, of the cranks, and also – of the apostles,” Howe becomes one herself, as an author and social reformer. She dies in Portsmouth, R.I., on October 17, 1910, and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Some 4,000 people attend a memorial service for her at Symphony Hall, where they join to sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic, the hymn she had written 50 years earlier.