Background
Herrick, Sophia M’Ilvaine Bledsoe was born on March 26, 1837 in Kenyon College. Daughter of Albert Taylor and Harriet (Coxe) Bledsoe.
Herrick, Sophia M’Ilvaine Bledsoe was born on March 26, 1837 in Kenyon College. Daughter of Albert Taylor and Harriet (Coxe) Bledsoe.
Educated Miss Coxe’s, Cincinnati, and Cooper Institute, Dayton, O.
Teacher and principal of school in Baltimore, 1868-1872. Associate editor and business manager Southern Review, Baltimore, 1875-1878. On editorial staff Scribner’s Magazine and its successor, The Century, 1878-1907.
Author: The Earth in Past Ages. Wonders of Plant Life. Home: New York, New York.
Married James B. Herrick, 1860.