History of College Hill, (Worcester County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Caroline Mehitabel (Fisher) Sawyer - A Biography

Caroline Mehitabel (Fisher) Sawyer, author, was born in Newton, Mass., Dec. 10, 1812; daughter of Jesse and Anna (Kenrick) Fisher; granddaughter of John Kenrick, and a descendant of the Rev. Thomas Foxcroft of Boston ?her maternal great-grandmother, Mehitable (Foxcroft) Miriam, wife of Rev. John Miriam of Newton, being his daughter. She was educated at home by her uncle, Enoch Kenrick, and was married, Sept. 21, 1831, to Dr. Thomas Jefferson Sawyer . They had seven children. She edited the Ladies' Repository, 1861?64, and is the author of: The Juvenile Library (4 vols., 1845); The Poetry of Hebrew Tradition (1847); edited the "Poems" of Mrs. Julia H. Scott, with a memoir (1854); translated Van Horn's "Friedel" from the German (1856); and conducted The Rose of Sharon, an annual publication (1850?58). She died at College Hill, Mass., May 19, 1894.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor