Author talk:Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb

Sources

Name: Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb
Birth - Death: 1841-1895
Source Citation:

• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)
• A Dictionary of American Authors. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. By Oscar Fay Adams. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904. Biographies are found in the 'Dictionary of American Authors' section which begins on page 1 and in the 'Supplement' which begins on page 441. (DcAmAu)
• A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951. (DcNAA)

Biography

• The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, vol. 50 (1896)

Miss Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb died at Boston, Mass. April 15, 1895, aged 54. She was a daughter of Louis Frederick and Sarah Bradley (Cow) Titcomb of Lowell, Mass. where she was born. She was a well-educated and talented lady, with strong antiquarian tastes and acquirements. She was the author of a volume published in 1882, entitled "Early New England People". Some Account of the Ellis, Pemberton, Willard, Prescott, Titcomb, Sewell, Longellow and allied Families." In this book, pp. 144 to 158, will be found her Titcomb ancestry, and pages 238 to 243 is her Dow ancestry. The genealogies of some other families from which she was descended are also printed here. She was the author of another volume p[ublished in 1885, entitled "Mind-Cure on a Material Basis."