Kate Brownlee Sherwood

Kate Brownlee Sherwood
Portrait photo from A Woman of the Century
Born	Katharine Margaret Brownlee September 24, 1841/September 25, 1841 (disputed) Mahoning County, Ohio or Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania (disputed)
Died	February 15, 1914 (aged 72) Washington, D.C.
Education	Poland Union Seminary
Occupations	Poet journalist translator
Organization(s)	Second National President, Woman's Relief Corps
Spouse	Isaac R. Sherwood
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Kate Brownlee Sherwood (née, Brownlee; September 24, 1841 – February 15, 1914) was an American poet, journalist, translator and story writer of the long nineteenth century, as well as a philanthropist, and patron of the arts and literature.^[1] Sherwood was also the founder of the Woman's Relief Corps (WRC) and served as its second president.^[2]

After marriage, she entered into her husband's journalistic work, where she learned to typeset, proofread, and manage all the details pertaining to the work in order to assist him. She contributed to various magazines and periodicals, and from 1883, was an editor of the Woman's Department of the National Tribune at Washington, D.C., a paper devoted to the interest of soldiers.^[3]

She is best known as the author of army lyrics and poems written for the celebration of military occasions.^[2] 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).^[4] Sherwood's memorial poem, Albert Sidney Johnston, was written 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.^{[citation needed]} Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird and Alice Williams Brotherton were contemporary poets from Ohio.^[5]