At the age of 5, he moved with his parents to Pennsylvania, and at the age of 8 to Maryland, when his mother, Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps,(sister of Emma Willard), became principal of the Patapsco Female Seminary in Ellicott City.
While a school girl at Emma Willard's seminary in Troy, New York, she translated the Aeneid into English verse, composed a ballad called “The Forsaken,” which Edgar A. Poe praised extravagantly, and published Records of the Heart, which contains some of her best minor verses (New York, 1844).
Prior to her death, Julia had been instrumental in campaigning for her late friend Emma Willard's induction into the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.
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