Woman of the Century — Sarah Hearst Black (1893)
“ BLACK, Mrs. Sarah Hearst, temperance reformer, born on a farm near Savannah. Ashland county, Ohio, 4th May. 1846. Her father's family removed from Pennsylvania to that farm when he was a boy of fourteen years, and Mrs. Black there grew to womanhood. Her ancestors were Scotch-Irish people, all of them members of the Presbyterian Church. Her mother's maiden name was Townsley. SARAH HEARST BLACK. Miss Hearst first attended school in a typical red school-house situated on a corner of her father's farm. ”
