Sarah Amelia Pratt Carr (July 17, 1850 – December 24, 1935) was an American minister and writer.
Sarah Pratt Carr | |
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.jpg) Undated photograph of Sarah Pratt Carr | |
| Born | July 17, 1850  Freeport |
| Died | December 24, 1935 (aged 85) Los Angeles |
| Children | Mary Carr Moore |
Sarah Amelia Pratt was born on July 17, 1850, in Freeport, Maine, to Louisa (Merrill) and Robert Henry Pratt.[1][2] Sarah married Byron Oscar Carr in Carlin, Nevada, on February 15, 1872.[3] She was ordained as a Unitarian minister in Lemoore, California, on April 24, 1896, and worked as a missionary in California thereafter.[1]
As a writer, Carr published several children's books in the 1910s and The Iron Way: A Tale of the Builders of the West (1907),[4] a historical novel about the Central Pacific Railroad.[5]
Mary Carr Moore was her daughter.[6] Sarah wrote the libretto to Mary's opera Narcissa (1911).[7] Carr died on December 24, 1935, in Los Angeles.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b Hitchings, Catherine F. (1985). Universalist and Unitarian Women Ministers. Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. p. 41. OCLC 1245894589.
- ^ Smith & Richardson 1987, p. 9.
- ^ Smith & Richardson 1987, pp. 1, 9.
- ^ Burke, William Jeremiah; Howe, Will David (1962). American Authors and Books: 1640 to the Present Day. Crown Publishing Group. p. 119. OCLC 1024166079.
- ^ "The Iron Way". The Houston Post. April 7, 1907. p. 26 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Smith & Richardson 1987, p. 7.
- ^ Chase, Gilbert (1987). America's Music, From the Pilgrims to the Present (3d ed.). University of Illinois Press. p. 544. ISBN 0-252-00454-X. OCLC 15017443.
- ^ "Former Lemoore Writer Passes at Southern Home". Hanford Sentinel. December 30, 1935. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
Sources
edit- Smith, Catherine Parsons; Richardson, Cynthia S. (1987). Mary Carr Moore, American Composer. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-10082-3. OCLC 14359121.
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