Sarah Pratt Carr

Sarah Pratt Carr
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 Carr (July 17, 1850 – December 24, 1935) was an American minister and writer.

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

1. Hitchings, Catherine F. (1985). Universalist and Unitarian Women Ministers. Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. p. 41. OCLC 1245894589.
2. Smith & Richardson 1987, p. 9.
3. Smith & Richardson 1987, pp. 1, 9.
4. Burke, William Jeremiah; Howe, Will David (1962). American Authors and Books: 1640 to the Present Day. Crown Publishing Group. p. 119. OCLC 1024166079.
5. "The Iron Way". The Houston Post. April 7, 1907. p. 26 – via newspapers.com.
6. Smith & Richardson 1987, p. 7.
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.
8. "Former Lemoore Writer Passes at Southern Home". Hanford Sentinel. December 30, 1935. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.

Sources

• Smith, Catherine Parsons; Richardson, Cynthia S. (1987). Mary Carr Moore, American Composer. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-10082-3. OCLC 14359121.