Kate Brownlee Sherwood, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kate Brownlee Sherwood

American writer

Date of Birth: 24-Sep-1841

Place of Birth: Mahoning County, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1914

Profession: writer, poet, translator, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Kate Brownlee Sherwood (September 24, 1841 – February 15, 1914) was a 19th-century American poet, journalist, and translator from Ohio, also known as a story writer, philanthropist, patron of art and literature.
She was the founder of the Woman's Relief Corps and served as its second president.
She is best known as the author of army lyrics and poems written for the celebration of military occasions.She was the author of: Camp-Fire and Memorial Poems (1885); Dreams of the Ages; a Poem of Columbia (1893); The Memorial of the Flowers (1888), and Guarding the Flags (1890).
Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird and Alice Williams Brotherton were contemporary poets from Ohio.Her memorial poem, Albert Sidney Johnston, was written by Sherwood at the invitation of the Executive Committee for the Unveiling Ceremonies of the General Albert Sidney Johnston Equestrian Statue, held under the auspices of the Army of the Tennessee Louisiana Division (Ex-Confederate) at New Orleans.