Sarah Elizabeth Bierce (1838–1898) was an American journalist and educator who was a charter member of the Woman's Press Club of Cleveland.
Early years and education
She was born Sarah Elizabeth Holden in
Sweden, Maine
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History
This ...
, she attended primary school in
New England
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later moving to
Michigan
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and graduating from
Kalamazoo College
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in 1860.
Career
After graduating from college, for six years she taught in both public and private schools. While engaged in school work, she wrote plays, which were first used by her pupils and afterwards published. Dring her marriage from 1866, to her husband's death, in 1881, Bierce wrote little for the press.
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In 1885, she worked with the '']Cleveland Plain Dealer
''The Plain Dealer'' is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio; it is a major national newspaper. In the fall of 2019, it ranked 23rd in U.S. newspaper circulation, a significant drop since March 2013, when its circulation ranked 17th daily an ...
'', contributing stories and sketches of home life and pioneer incidents. She wrote accounts of her travel which included California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.[
She investigated certain phases of the working-woman problem, and she wrote articles on art subjects. She was a member of the Ohio Woman's Press Association and in 1892, was their corresponding secretary. In 1891, she was their delegate to the International League of Press Clubs, formed in ]Pittsburgh
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, Pennsylvania
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.[
Bierce managed the women's literary and journalistic department of the Ohio Centennial, held in Columbus in 1888.]Lake View Cemetery
Lake View Cemetery is a Private property, privately owned, Nonprofit organization, nonprofit Rural cemetery, garden cemetery located in the cities of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Cleveland Heights, and East Cleveland, Ohio, East Cleveland ...
.[Mortuary Notice. (1898, October 13). Plain Dealer (Issue 287), p. 10.]
References
* Frances Elizabeth Willard and Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, "Sarah Elizabeth Bierce", ''Woman of the Century'', 1893, Charles Wells Moulton
External links
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1838 births
People from Oxford County, Maine
American women journalists
Kalamazoo College alumni
Journalists from Maine
1898 deaths
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century