Sara Cone Bryant

Sara Cone Bryant (born 1873) was the author of various children's book in the early 20th century, including

  • How to Tell Stories To Children
  • Stories to tell the littlest ones
  • Epaminondas and His Auntie
  • I am an American
  • The Burning Rice Fields

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.[1] In 1908 she married Theodore Franz Borst,[2][3] a horticulturalist,[4] and appears with her husband in the 1940 census.[5] 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.

References
  1. The Key, vol 31, 1914, pg 197
  2. The Key, vol 31, 1914, pg 197
  3. Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, Volume 1, John William Leonard, American Commonwealth Company, 1914, pg 921
  4. http://www.crisismagazine.com/author/fahey-and-bryant
  5. United States Census, district 9-450, family no. 191, sheet no. 9A, line no. 29, affiliate publication no. T627, affiliate film no. 1616, digital folder no. 005460888, image no. 00124, accessible at familysearch.org


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