Sarah Peter

Sarah Peter

Sarah Anne Worthington King Peter (10 May 1800, Chillicothe, Ohio - 6 February 1877, Cincinnati) was an American philanthropist.

Life

Her father, Thomas Worthington, was Governor of Ohio, 1814–18, and also served in the United States Senate. On 15 May 1816, she married Edward King, son of Rufus King of New York, who died 6 February 1836; and in October, 1844, she married William Peter, British consul at Philadelphia, who died 6 February 1853.

During her residence at Philadelphia she founded, 2 December 1850, the School of Design for Women. Returning to Cincinnati she spent most of her remaining years as a patron of art, and in works of charity and philanthropy.

She became a Catholic convert at Rome in March, 1855, being instructed there by Mgr Mermillod. The foundations of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, the Sisters of Mercy, the Little Sisters of the Poor in Cincinnati, and other institutions, owed much to her generosity. In 1862 she volunteered as a nurse, and went with the sisters who followed General Grant's army in the south-west after the battle of Pittsburg Landing.

References

  • King, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Peter(Cincinnati, 1889);
  • Catholic Telegraph (Cincinnati), files;
  • Freeman's Journal (New York), files.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainHerbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Sarah Peter". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. 


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