Sarah Josepha Hale

SARAH JOSEPHA HALE
(1788 - 1879)

One of America's first
woman editors. Hale
greatly increased
subscriptions to Godye's
Lady's Book in her four
decades as editor. She
successfully promoted a
national Thanksgiving
Day to President Lincoln.
the author and women's
advocate lived here.

Also the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb," according to Wikipedia.