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Julia Elizabeth <I>Howe</I> Stockwell

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Julia Elizabeth Howe Stockwell

Birth
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
21 Mar 1869 (aged 23)
New York, USA
Burial
Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.8897667, Longitude: -73.8712463
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STOCKWELL-on Sunday morning, March 21, JULIA E. wife of Alden B. Stockwell and youngest daughter of the late Elias Howe, Jr., aged 23 years 1 month and 23 days. Funeral from residence, No. 16 East Twenty-ninth street, Wednesday afternoon, at two o'clock. Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
New York Herald, 22 Mar 1869

It was in the sixties that Julia E. Howe married Alden B. Stockwell in Paris, a few years after her marriage, she died and her clothes were packed away, not to be unearthed till recently when her daughter, Mrs. Julia Howe Stockwell Smith of Plainesville, O. decided to present them to a museum. A trip to various museums finally liked her to Springfield and the Pynchon Memorial, with results now will be seen in the glass case aforementioned., It is a lesson in changing fashion, a warning against pinning too much faith on an ostrich plume.
Excerpt from the Springfield Republican (Springfield, MA), 15 Nov 1931
STOCKWELL-on Sunday morning, March 21, JULIA E. wife of Alden B. Stockwell and youngest daughter of the late Elias Howe, Jr., aged 23 years 1 month and 23 days. Funeral from residence, No. 16 East Twenty-ninth street, Wednesday afternoon, at two o'clock. Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
New York Herald, 22 Mar 1869

It was in the sixties that Julia E. Howe married Alden B. Stockwell in Paris, a few years after her marriage, she died and her clothes were packed away, not to be unearthed till recently when her daughter, Mrs. Julia Howe Stockwell Smith of Plainesville, O. decided to present them to a museum. A trip to various museums finally liked her to Springfield and the Pynchon Memorial, with results now will be seen in the glass case aforementioned., It is a lesson in changing fashion, a warning against pinning too much faith on an ostrich plume.
Excerpt from the Springfield Republican (Springfield, MA), 15 Nov 1931


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