Julia Rush Cutler Ward

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Julia Rush Cutler was born in Boston, January 5, 1796. She was the daughter of Benjamin Clark Cutler (b. 1756), of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.{{cite book |last1=Ward |first1=John |title=A Memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island Regiment, Army of the American Revolution: With a Genealogy of the Ward Family |date=1875 |edition=Public domain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D3NZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA18 |access-date=21 August 2021 |language=en}} Her mother, Sarah Marion Mitchell Hyrne Cutler, was the daughter of Thomas Mitchell and Esther (or Hester) Marion.{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Laura Elizabeth Howe |last2=Elliott |first2=Maud Howe |title=Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 |date=1915 |edition=Public domain |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LHqjEYLKPfYC&pg=PA10 |access-date=21 August 2021 |language=en}} Julia was the third child in the family. Her siblings included: Mary Ann, Mary Eliza, Rev. Benjamin Clark (of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn; brother-in-law of General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe), Charlotte, and Francis Marion.{{cite book |title=A Cutler Memorial and Genealogical History: Containing the Names of a Large Proportion of the Cutlers in the United States and Canada, and a Record of Many Individual Members of the Family, with an Account Also of Other Families Allied to the Cutlers by Marriage |date=1889 |edition=Public domain |publisher=Press of E. A. Hall & Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b4pGAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA566 |access-date=21 August 2021 |language=en}}

Julia's maternal ancestors were of South Carolina, and her grandmother was the only sister of the partisan leader, General Francis Marion.{{cite book |last1=Griswold |first1=Rufus Wilmot |last2=Stoddard |first2=Richard Henry |title=The Female Poets of America |date=1878 |edition=Public domain |publisher=J. Miller |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cCXPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA90 |access-date=21 August 2021 |language=en |chapter=Julia Rush Ward}} {{Source-attribution}}

In 1812, she married Samuel Ward, a banker of New York City. After marriage, she came to New York City to reside at a time when Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, James Fenimore Cooper, and others, were making their first marks in literature, and her abilities, improved by the best culture, brought into her circle important people of the city.

Ward wrote occasional poems with grace, sincerity, and an impromptu ease. One of her poems is preserved in Griswold's Female Poets of America (Philadelphia, 1878).

On October 9, 1812, at the age of seventeen, she married Samuel Ward, head of the banking house of Prime, Ward & King, and as such was the most influential financier in America, enjoying a position of power and influence equal to that of J. Pierpont Morgan seventy years later. In the financial panic of 1837, Ward played a like part to that of Morgan in the panic of 1907.

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The Wards had seven children including:

• Samuel ("Sam") Cutler Ward (1814–1884), a lobbyist who married Emily Astor (1819–1841), daughter of William Backhouse Astor Sr.{{cite web|title=Samuel Ward Papers|url=http://archives.nypl.org/uploads/collection/pdf_finding_aid/wards.pdf|website=nypl.org|publisher=New York Public Library Archives|accessdate=7 February 2017}}
• Julia (b. 1816; died in infancy)
• Henry Ward (1818–1839/40)
• Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910), author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who married Samuel Gridley Howe (1801–1876){{cite web|title=Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)|url=http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/julia-ward-howe/|work=National Women's History Museum}}
• Louisa Cutler Ward (1823–1897), who married Thomas Gibson Crawford (1813–1857), a prominent sculptor. After his death, she married Luther Terry (1813–1900), an artist.{{cite news|title=MRS. W. A. CHANLER, AUTHOR, MUSICIAN; Niece of Julia Ward Howe and the Half-Sister of F. Marion Crawford Dies at 91|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/12/20/archives/mrs-wa-chahler-author-mijbioiuq-niece-of-julia-ward-howe-and-the.html|accessdate=21 February 2018|work=The New York Times|date=20 December 1952}}{{cite news|title=F. Marion Crawford.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1897/12/19/archives/illustrated-weekly-magazine-f-marion-crawford.html|accessdate=22 February 2018|work=The New York Times|date=19 December 1897}}
• Francis Marion (1820–1847)
• Louisa Cutler (1823–1857)
• Anne Eliza Ward Maillard (born November 2, 1824)

On a north corner of Broadway stood the Ward house, a plain but dignified structure of brick with white marble trimmings.

In 1819, the family lived at No. I Marketfield Street, on the north side, next to the corner of Broad Street. The family moved next to No. 5 Bowling Green, the "Steamship Row" of later days, where they had as neighbors John Hone, Elisha Riggs, and Stephen Whitney.{{cite book |title=Valentine's Manual of the City of New York |date=1917 |edition=Public domain |publisher=Valentine Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-MpAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA211 |access-date=21 August 2021 |issue=2}}

Ward died November 9, 1824, at her Bowling Green home in New York City a week after her last child, Anne, was born.

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