Sarah Josepha Hale
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Sarah Josepha Hale (October 24, 1788 - April 30, 1879) was a United States writer. She was born in Newport, New Hampshire, United States to Captain Gordon Buell and Martha Whittlesay Buell. Early on in her life, she was educated by her mother, and later on, Hale was an autodidact.
In 1813, she married David Hale, a lawyer and Freemason. In 1823, with the monetary support of her husband's Freemason lodge, she published a collection of her poems entitled The Genius of Oblivion. From 1827 until 1836, Hale served as editor of Lady's Magazine and from 1837 until 1877, she served as an editor of Godey's Lady's Book. During this time, Hale wrote many novels and poems, publishing nearly fifty volumes of work, by the end of her life. In 1830, "Poems for Our Children" was published containing her single most famous piece, "Mary Had a Little Lamb." She is also known for her successful appeal to President Abraham Lincoln for a national holiday known as Thanksgiving Day.
Sarah Hale died in 1879 and was interred in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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