Sarah Josepha Hale

The American Story by Christopher Flannery

Nov 22, 202207:11Society & Culture

Sarah Josepha Hale was born in New Hampshire in 1788. In an era when the average American life expectancy was forty years, she lived until 1879—91 years—and has been remembered by posterity primarily for two things: the...

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