Hale, SARAH JOSEPHA

Hale, SARAH JOSEPHA, author of Mary's Lamb, was born at Newport, New Hampshire, October 24, 1788. On the death of her husband, David Hale, in 1822, she devoted herself to authorship, and became in 1828 editor of the Ladies' Magazine, which she continued to conduct after it had, in 1837, become united with Godey's Lady's Book; nor did she retire from her editorial work until 1877. She was instrumental in procuring the employment of lady medical missionaries, in completing the Bunker Hill monument, and in securing that Thanksgiving Day should be simultaneously observed in all the states. She published nearly twenty works, including poems, cookery books, books of poetical extracts, and novels. Her most important work is Woman's Record: or Sketches of Distinguished Women (3d ed. 1869). She died 30th April 1879.—Her son, HORATIO (1817-96), in 1837 graduated at Harvard, and was appointed ethnologist to the United States Pacific exploring expedition. He prepared the valuable expedition report on Ethnography and Philology (1846), and has published numerous memoirs and works on kindred subjects, including Indian Migrations as evidenced by Language (1883), The Iroquois Book of Rites (1883), a Report on the Blackfoot Tribes, presented to the British Association in 1885, and his introductory address, delivered as president of the Anthropological Section of the American Association in 1886, on The Origin of Languages and the Antiquity of Speaking Man.