Sarah Elizabeth Mary (Knowles) Bolton, 1841-1916

The papers of Sarah Knowles Bolton were deposited with the Schlesinger Library in 1954 by Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Sarah Elizabeth Mary Knowles was born in Farmington, Conn. on September 15, 1841, daughter of John Segar and Mary Elizabeth (Miller) Knowles. She married Charles Edward Bolton in 1866. They lived in Cleveland, Ohio and, for a time, in Boston; travelled in Europe; and had one son, Charles Knowles Bolton (1867-1950), who edited some of the papers in this collection and was librarian of the Boston Athenaeum from 1898 to 1933.

Sarah Knowles Bolton was an author and editor and active in temperance work and on behalf of humane treatment of animals. For a list of her books see Who Was Who, Vol. I.