births
October 14, 1861
Julia A. Ames, American journalist, editor, and reformer (died 1891)
Julia A. Ames
Julia A. Ames was an American journalist, editor and temperance reformer. She served as associate editor of the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association's Union Signal. Ames died in 1891 at the age of 30. The year after her death, the journalist and spiritualist W. T. Stead published automatic writing which was said to have been sent by Ames to her friend. Stead also created "Julie's Bureau" to allow others to communicate with the dead.
October 14
October 14 is the 287th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 78 days remain until the end of the year.