| LC control no. | n 50041120 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bryant, Sara Cone, 1873-1956 |
| Variant(s) | Borst, Sara Cone Bryant, 1873- Borst, Theodore Franz, Mrs., 1873-1956 |
| Birth date | 1873-01-04 |
| Death date | 1956-05-28 |
| Place of birth | Melrose (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Framingham (Mass.) |
| Field of activity | Storytelling Suffrage |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Found in | Her Best stories to tell to children ... 1912. Wikipedia, April 20, 2020 (Sara Cone Bryant; Sara Cone Bryant (born 1873) was the author of various children's book in the early 20th century; the daughter of Dexter and Dorcas Ann (Hancock) Bryant, of Melrose, Massachusetts, she studied at Boston University, graduating B.A. in 1895; she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority; in 1908 she married Theodore Franz Borst, a horticulturalist, and appears with her husband in the 1940 census; they had two children; her brother, Albert Bryant, ran The Centaur Company and Sterling Products which later became Sterling Drug and his father-in-law was Charles Henry Fletcher) ancestry.com, April 20, 2020 (Sara Cone Bryant; Sara Bryant Borst; Sara C. Borst; born 4 January 1873 in Melrose, Massachusetts; daughter of Dexter Bryant and Dorcas A. Hancock; married Theodore Franz Borst on 9 March 1908 in Natick, Massachusetts; died 1956 in Massachusetts) Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920, via WWW, April 20, 2020 (Biography of Sara Cone Bryant (Borst), 1873-1956; Sara Cone Bryant was born in 1873 to Dexter and Dorcas Anne (née Hancock) Bryant in Melrose, Massachusetts; Sara wrote children's books, collections of children's stories, and books advocating the educational purpose and function of children's stories; in addition to teaching and writing, Sara lectured and presented as a storyteller, advocating the educational value of storytelling; Sara worked within the organizational leadership of the Suffrage movement; in 1900, she co-founded the College Equal Suffrage League with Maude Wood Park and served as first vice president; in 1901, Sara held the office of president of the CESL; Sara married Theodore Franz Borst on March 9, 1908 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and they had two children, James and Elizabeth; they ran Little Tree Farms Inc. in Framingham Center, Massachusetts; Sara died in her Framingham home on May 28, 1956 at age 84) |
| Associated language | eng |
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