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Sarah Josepha Buell Hale |
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Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 |
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1788 |
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1879 |
Hale, Sarah Josepha, née Buell, born at Newport, New Hampshire, 1795, and married to David Hale, a lawyer, who died in 1822. Mrs. Hale edited The Ladies' Magazine, Boston, from 1828; and Godey's Ladies’ Book, Philadelphia, from 1837, besides publishing several works. Her hymn, “Our Father in heaven, we hallow Thy name" (The Lord's Prayer), appeared in Mason & Greene's Church Psalmody, 1831, No. 553, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. Mrs. Hale, who was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, died in 1879. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of Godey's Lady's Book. She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.
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