Background
Oberholtzer, Sara Louisa was born on May 20, 1841 in Uwchlan, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Paxson and Ann (Lewis) Vickers, educated Friends’ Boarding and Millersville Normal schools.
Oberholtzer, Sara Louisa was born on May 20, 1841 in Uwchlan, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Paxson and Ann (Lewis) Vickers, educated Friends’ Boarding and Millersville Normal schools.
Mother of Ellis Paxson O. Has been president of literature and philanthropic societies.
Lecturer, and reader from her own works. President Pennsylvania Woman’s Press Association, 1903-1905. World’s and National W.C.T.U. superintendent school savings banks, since 1890.
Author of leading literature on that subject.
Author: Violet Lee, 1873. Come for Arbutus
Wild Bloom, 1882. Hope’s Heart Bells, 1884.Daisies of Verse, 1886. Souvenirs of Occasion, 1892. Mistress S. L. Oberholtzer’s Letters from Europe, 1895.Also hymns, dialogues and pamphlets. Magazine writer. Editor of School Savings, quarterly, Thrift Tidings, since 1907. Author of 30 pamphlets on school savings banks, and statistics of school savings in the United States Leader of the school savings banks movement in the United States and Canada.
Married John Oberholtzer, of Chester Company, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1862.