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A Short Biography of Sarah Knowles Bolton

Author Name:

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Born As:

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Other Names:

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Born:

15 Sep 1841

Died:

21 Feb 1916




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Writer and reform activist                          
Selected Works:

Orlean Lamar - and other poems - New York - 1863
The Present Problem, a novelette - 1874
How Success is Won - Boston - 1884
Lives of Poor Boys who became Famous - New York - 1885
Lives of Girls who became Famous - 1886
Social Studies in England - Boston - 1886
Stories from Life - New York - 1886
Famous European artists - New York - 1890
Famous voyagers and explorers - New York - 1893
The inevitable - and other poems- New York - 1895.                          
Mother Mary Elizabeth Miller Knowles.
Father John Segar Knowles.

In 1866 she married Charles E. Bolton, a merchant and philanthropist. 

In 1872 her son, Charles Knowles Bolton was born.

                           
Sarah wrote extensively for the press, and was one of the first corresponding secretaries of the Woman's National Temperance Union, and was associate editor of the Boston "Congregationalist" - 1878-81, and traveled for two years in Europe, studying profit-sharing, female higher education, and other social questions. 

Sarah’s writings encourage readers to improve the world about them through faith and hard work. She died in Cleveland, Ohio.