Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) Julia Ward Howe, a writer, lecturer, and women’s rights activist, was born in 1819 in New York City to Samuel Ward, Jr., a wealthy Wall Street stockbroker, and Julia Rush, a poet. Julia was educated by tutors at home and in girls’ schools until age 16. In 1843, she married Samuel Gridley Howe, director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston. Her husband disapproved [...]