Comes from good New England ancestry; descended on her father's side
from Henry Knowles, who came to Rhode Island from London, England, in
1635, and on her mother's side from Colonel Nathaniel Stanley, of
Hartford, Conn., one of the leading men of the colony, and from Colonel
William Pynchon, one of the twenty-six incorporators of Massachusetts
Bay Colony. She was graduated from the Hartford Seminary, established by
Catharine Beecher; published a volume of poems, and in 1860 married
Charles E. Bolton, A.M., of Massachusetts, an Amherst College graduate
of '65. They removed to Cleveland, O., where, besides writing for
various periodicals, she did much charitable work. She was secretary of
the Woman's Christian Association, and Asst. Cor. Sec. of the Nat. W. C.
T. U. She has twice visited Europe, spending two years in England,
France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Norway, and Sweden studying literary and
educational matters, and the means used by employers for the mental and
moral elevation of their employees. On the latter subject she read a
paper before the American Social Science Association in 1883. She was
for three years one of the editors of the Boston _Congregationalist_.
She prepared several small books for the Cleveland Educational Bureau,
conducted gratuitously by her husband, and described by Dr. Washington
Gladden in the _Century_ magazine, January, 1885. The Bureau was
discontinued when Mr. Bolton gave his time to lecturing.
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Mrs. Bolton has written: How Success is Won, 1884; Poor Boys who became
Famous, 1885; Girls who became Famous, 1886; Stories from Life
(fiction), 1886; Social Studies in England, 1886; Famous American
Authors, 1887; From Heart and Nature (poems), 1887, half the book
written by her son, Charles Knowles Bolton, Harvard College, class '90;
Famous American Statesmen, 1888; Some Successful Women, 1888; Famous Men
of Science, 1889; Famous English Authors of the Nineteenth Century,
1890; Famous European Artists, 1890; Famous English Statesmen of Queen
Victoria's Reign, 1891; Famous Types of Womanhood, 1892.
Miss Frances E. Willard says of Mrs. Bolton, "She is one of the
best-informed women in America, the chief woman biographer of our
times."
Mrs. Bolton's books are for sale by all booksellers, or will be sent
postpaid upon receipt of price by the publishers. Complete catalogue
sent free to any address upon application.
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., New York and Boston.