Julia Howe
1819 – 1910
American

Feminist. During the Civil War, she wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic. After the end of slavery, which she had campaigned against, she turned her attention to securing a woman's right to vote and founded the New England Woman Suffrage Association.

Contemporaries
1817–1862Henry David Thoreau
1902–1987Carl Rogers
1809–1865Abraham Lincoln
1743–1826Thomas Jefferson
1842–1910William James
1859–1952John Dewey
1897–1980Dorothy Day
1857–1938Clarence Darrow
1907–1964Rachel Carson
1835–1919Andrew Carnegie
1837–1921John Burroughs
1821–1912Clara Barton
1820–1906Susan B. Anthony
1860–1935Jane Addams