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She was born in New York City to a banker Samuel Ward
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She married Samuel Gridley Howe who was a physician and reformer.
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She wrote new words to the song John Brown's Body, a song describing an abolitionist song during the time of the civil war. John Brown's Body
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The Hymn has been sung at the funerals of such people as; the British hero Winston Churchill, Robert F Kennedy and President Reagen to name a few. She was inspired to write the hymn after meeting President Linclon in November 1861.
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She wrote the Mother's Day Proclamation asking women of the world to join together for world peace.
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At the age of 91, she died of pneumonia.
