Eunice Hale Cobb

Eunice Hale Cobb
Born	Eunice Hale Waite January 27, 1803 Kennebunk, Maine, U.S.
Died	May 2, 1880(1880-05-02) (aged 77) East Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place	Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett, Massachusetts
Occupation	Writer public speaker activist
Language	English
Notable works	"The First Article"
Spouse	Rev. Sylvanus Cobb ​ (m. 1822)​
Children	9, including Sylvanus, Jr.; Cyrus; and Darius (twins)
Relatives	Stanwood Cobb (grandson)

Eunice Hale Cobb (née Waite; January 27, 1803 – May 2, 1880) was an American writer, public speaker, and activist. She was born in Kennebunk, Maine, in 1803 and she married Rev. Sylvanus Cobb in Hallowell, Maine, in 1822. She was a devoted and efficient assistant to his religious work as a Universalist preacher. Her eldest son, Sylvanus, Jr., derived much of his noted faculty for story-telling from her practice of telling him stories – often continued from evening to evening, as he sat at her feet when a child. She wrote hymns, and occasional poems, and obituary lines. Her faith in God was expressed in all her poetry. As a public speaker, she was very persuasive and convincing. She was the first female president of the Ladies Physiological Institute, of Boston, and served it in that capacity for some 15 years.^[1] She died in 1880.