WOMEN IN HISTORY - SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON

Noted Cleveland author of biographies, poetry and a temperance novel

DATE OF BIRTH

September 15, 1841

PLACE OF BIRTH

Farmington, Connecticut

DATE OF DEATH

February 21, 1916

PLACE OF DEATH

Cleveland, Ohio. She is buried in Lakeview Cemetery.

FAMILY BACKGROUND

Father, John S. Knowles - descended from Henry Knowles who settled in Rhode Island in 1635. Mother, descendant of Colonel Nathaniel Stanley and Colonel William Pynchon - one of twenty-six incorporators of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Had a younger brother and sister.

EDUCATION

Hartford Female Seminary, founded by Catherine Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stow.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Sarah B. Knowles was active in the temperance and other reform movements, including animal rights. She was published at the age of fifteen and maintained a writing career which embraced poetry, children's literature and biographies throughout her life. Her writings reflected her belief in the ability to better one's world through faith and hard work. After graduating from the Hartford Female Seminary in 1860 she taught school in Natchez, Mississippi until the outbreak of the Civil War. She married Charles E. Bolton in 1866 and in 1872 her son, Charles Knowles Bolton was born. Her accomplishments include the following:
  • Met Harriet Beecher Stowe at age 11 (1852)
  • Associate editor of the Congregationalist from1878-1881.
  • Traveled in Europe studying women's education and labor conditions, 1881-1883.
  • Was a leader in the Woman's Temperance Crusade of 1873-74
  • Was the Assistant Corresponding Secretary of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
  • Wrote numerous poems, children's books and biographical sketches, 1864-1902

WEBSITES

QUOTE

"Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn." ~ Sarah Knowles Bolton

BOOKS

  • Famous English Statesmen of Queen Victoria's Reign. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1972] Description: 460 p. ports. 23 cm. Location: 942.081 172
  • Famous Men of Science. Rev. by Barbara Lovett Cline. New York, Crowell [1961, c1960] Description: 326 p. 21 cm. Location: 509.22 172
  • Miscellanea : Holographs and clippings of poems] / Sarah K. Bolton. [Cleveland (Ohio)], 1890?
  • The present problem. [A temperance story] New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York, T. Y. Crowell & co. [1904]
  • Sarah K. Bolton; pages from an intimate autobiography, edited by her son. Privately printed. Boston, Thomas Todd Co., 1923.
  • Social studies in England. Special ed. pub. for the Bay View reading circle, Central office, Flint, Mich. Boston, Lothrop publishing company [c1900]
  • Stories from life. New York, T. Y. Crowell & Co. [c1886]
  • Successful women. Boston, Lothrop, [c1888]
  • Famous leaders among women. New York, Boston, T. Y. Crowell & co. [1895]
  • Famous men of science. New York, T. Y. Crowell & co. [c1889]
  • Famous men of science. revised by Edward W. Sanderson, illustrated by Constance Joan Naar. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell company [1946]
  • Famous men of science. Rev. by Barbara Lovett Cline. New York, Crowell [1961, c1960]
  • Famous types of womanhood. New York : Crowell c1892
  • Famous voyagers and explorers. New York, Boston, T. Y. Crowell & co. [1893]
  • From heart and nature. New York, T.Y. Crowell & co., 1887.
  • How success is won. with portraits. Chicago, Interstate Publishing Co. [c1885]
  • How success is won. By Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton. with portraits. Boston, D. Lothrop and company [c1885]
  • How success is won. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1973]
  • The inevitable, and other poems. New York, Boston, T. Y, Crowell [c1895]
  • Lives of girls who became famous. New York, T. Y. Crowell & co. [1886]
  • Lives of poor boys who became famous. New York, T. Y. Crowell Co., c1922.
  • Lives of poor boys who became famous. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell company [c1937]
  • Lives of poor boys who became famous. New York, Crowell [1962]
  • Charles E. Bolton; a memorial sketch, by his wife Sarah K. Bolton. Cambridge, The University press, 1907.
  • A country idyl, and other stories. New York, Boston, T.Y. Crowell & co. [1898]
  • Every-day living. Boston : L. C. Page, 1900.
  • Famous American authors. New York, T. Y. Crowell & co. [1887]
  • Famous American authors. New York, Crowell [c1924]
  • Famous American authors. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell company [c1938]
  • Famous American authors. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [1940]
  • Famous American authors. Rev by William A. Fahey. New York, Crowell [1954]
  • Famous American statesmen. New York, Crowell [c1925]
  • Famous English authors of the nineteenth century. New York, Crowell [c1890]
  • Famous English statesmen of Queen Victoria's reign. New York, T. Y. Crowel & Co. [c1891]
  • Famous European artists. New York, T. Y. Crowell & co. [c1890]
  • Famous givers and their gifts. New York, Boston, T.Y. Crowell & Company, [c1896]
  • Famous leaders among men. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. [1894]
  • Famous American authors. Rev by William A. Fahey. New York, Crowell [1954]
  • Famous men of science. Revised by Barbara Lovett Cline. New York, Crowell [1960]
  • Famous men of science. revised by Edward W. Sanderson, illustrated by Constance Joan Naar. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell company [1946]
  • Famous men of science. New York, Crowell [c1960]
  • Lives of girls who became famous. Illustrated by Constance Joan Naar. New York, Crowell Co. [1949]
  • Lives of poor boys who became famous. Illustrated by Constance Joan Naar. New York, Crowell [1962]

CITATION

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