BOLTON, SARAH TITTLE BARRETT: 1814-1893.
Born in Newport, Ky., Dec. 18, 1814, the daughter of Jonathan Belcher and Esther Pendleton Barrett, Sarah T. Barrett as a child moved with her family to Madison, Ind. She began to write poetry at an early age, and her contributions to the Madison newspaper led to her acquaintance with its editor, Nathaniel Bolton , and their subsequent marriage.
A year later they moved to Indianapolis, where he was founder of the INDIANAPOLIS GAZETTE. Mrs. Bolton continued to write poetry, contributing to newspapers and to the HOME JOURNAL. She also had a number of songs published. During the Forties and Fifties she was poet laureate of Indiana. She also engaged actively in public affairs, assisting Robert Dale Owen in his campaign for women's property rights. During the administration of President Pierce she accompanied her husband to Geneva, where he was United States Consul.
About five years after Nathaniel Bolton's death, which occurred in 1858, Sarah T. Bolton married Judge Addison Reese of Missouri , but she used the name of Reese only for business purposes. She died in Indianapolis on Aug. 4, 1893.
page: 37[View Page 37]Information from the Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. II; Dunn–Indiana and Indianans; Esarey–History of Indiana; THE INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Vol. 8; Kunitz and Haycraft–American Authors 1600-1900; and the Indianapolis Public Library.
- Poems. New York, 1865.
- The Life and Poems of Sarah T. Bolton.
Indianapolis, 1880.
- Songs of a Life-Time. Edited by John Clark Ridpath. With an
Introduction by General Lew Wallace and a Poem by James Whitcomb
Riley. Indianapolis, 1892.
- Paddle Your Own Canoe, and Other Poems.
Indianapolis, n.d. [1897].
