Sarah Pratt Carr
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Sarah Pratt Carr | |
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.jpg) 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]
