Sarah Josepha Hale

Overview

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale born Newport, NH October 24, 1788 (d. 1879). Poet; editor; teacher in Boston Ladies Peace Society; "Mother of Thanksgiving" for getting Lincoln to proclaim first holiday in appeal for truce in Civil War.

Quotations

Then Woman is the star of home,
That guides to peace.

(Epistle to Miss TH; port. by James R. Lambdin 1831)