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swazal t1_j324n2j wrote

Reply to comment by marmorset in TIL about Sarah Josepha Hale. She wrote the poem "Mary had a Little Lamb" and was editor of the most influential women's magazine of the time. Helping to found Vassar College. Over the course of 17 years she wrote five different presidents urging them to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. by marmorset

Did you find out anything about her faith? Surprisingly it is not obvious. Quaker?

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marmorset OP t1_j32apb8 wrote

Though she often wrote about religion and morality there's no information about specific religion. Her father's side of the family was from Wales and they appear to have been Baptists, but I couldn't find anything about her mother's side. I suspect if she had been a Quaker that would have been mentioned.

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