Name: A Lesser Mortal: The Unexpected Life of Sarah b. Cochran
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Author: Kimberly Hess
ISBN: 9781953865144

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A Lesser Mortal: The Unexpected Life of Sarah b. Cochran

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Physical Book

Publisher

Books Fluent

Author

Kimberly Hess

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

248

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781953865144

Synopsis "A Lesser Mortal: The Unexpected Life of Sarah b. Cochran "

This wonderful biography brings to life Sarah B. Cochran, a philanthropist, college trustee, and coal industry executive in the early 1900s. Like her contemporaries, including philanthropists Phoebe Hearst, Olivia Sage, and Jane Stanford, Sarah inherited a fortune that she used to better her community. Kimberly Hess masterfully explores the many facets of her life, helping us to understand Sarah’s transformation after the death of her husband and son, and her powerful use of philanthropy to advance the causes she believed deeply in. --Joan Marie Johnson, author of Funding Feminism: Philanthropy, Monied Women, and the Women’s Rights MovementSarah B. Cochran probably didn’t expect to own businesses that competed with Henry Clay Frick’s or to exceed Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropic giving in certain circles. But when her husband and son died suddenly, she had to take over the family coal and coke business at a time when it was illegal, and some thought unlucky, for women to work in or around coal mines. Rather than retreating from the world, from her forties through her seventies she engaged with it through philanthropic activity that shifted power, championed others and influenced causes. Today, her contributions can be difficult to identify without already knowing they exist. This book is an introduction to Sarah’s story for academics, genealogists, history buffs and those interested in sharing stories of other “lesser mortals” who created significant changes but remain largely unknown.

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