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| Born | Sara Jane Timanus August 15, 1845 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | May 2, 1930 Washington, D.C. |
| Resting place | Westerly, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Pen name | Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts |
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Sara Jane Crafts (née, Timanus; pen name, Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts; August 15, 1845 – May 2, 1930) was an American social reformer, author, lecturer, and teacher.[1] She lectured and taught at Chautauquas, as well as a lecturer at State and International Sunday school conventions. Crafts was an editor and contributor to various periodicals, and published several books between 1876 and 1911.[2] Craft was a social reformer who traveled the world advocating on behalf of Sunday schools, temperance, and anti-opium. She was also "one of the first women to conduct convention sessions" in the U.S.[3]
- ^ Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1925). Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem. Vol. 2. American Issue Publishing Company. p. 727. Retrieved 2 August 2022 – via Internet Archive.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Leonard, John William (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914–1915. American Commonwealth Company. p. 212. Retrieved 3 August 2022 – via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Kirby, James E.; Rivera, Feliciano; Kirby, James; Richey, Russell E.; Rowe, Kenneth E. (1996). The Methodists. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-22048-7.
