Sara Bard Field
| Sara Bard Field | |
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Field, c. 1915
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| Born | September 1, 1882 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Died | June 15, 1974 (aged 91) Berkeley, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Sara Ehrgott |
| Occupation | Poet Suffragist |
| Spouse(s) | Albert Ehrgott (c. 1900–1914) Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1938–1944) |
Sara Bard Field (September 1, 1882 – June 15, 1974) was an American poet, suffragist, Georgist, and Christian socialist. She worked on successful campaigns for women's suffrage in Oregon and Nevada. Field drove a petition containing 500,000 signatures asking for suffrage from California to Washington, D.C. to present to President Woodrow Wilson. She was a skilled orator and became a poet later in her career, marrying C.E.S. Wood.
Sara Bard Field was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 1, 1882, to Annie Jenkins (née Stevens) and George Bard Field. Her mother had a Quaker background and her father was a strict Baptist. Their family moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1885. Sara graduated from Detroit Central High School in 1900. She married minister Albert Ehrgott, a man twice her age, in September 1900. She traveled with Ehrgott through India to Rangoon, Burma. She gave birth to a son, Albert Field, in 1901 and sustained injuries from childbirth. She returned to the United States in 1902 and the family settled in New Haven, Connecticut.
Ehrgott relocated to a parish in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1903. The pair were influenced by the Christian socialism and Georgism movements. Sara started a kindergarten and soup kitchen there and came to the attention of Progressive Cleveland mayor Tom L. Johnson. Her sister, Mary Field, introduced her to lawyer Clarence Darrow. Sara gave birth to a daughter, Katherine Louise, in 1906.
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