Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Oberholtzer, Sara Louisa

OBERHOLTZER, Sara Louisa, poet, b. in Uwchlan, Chester co., Pa., 20 May, 1841. Her maiden name was Vickers. She was educated at the state normal school in Millersville, and on 1 Jan., 1862, married John Oberholtzer, of Norristown, Pa. She began at an early age to contribute poems and articles in prose to newspapers and magazines, and has published in book-form “Violet Lee, and other Poems” (Philadelphia, 1872); “Come for Arbutus, and other Wild Bloom” (1882); “Hope's Heart Bells,” a story of Quaker life (1884); and “Daisies of Verse” (1886).