Sara Maxson Cobb
Sara Maxson Cobb | |
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| Born | Sara Miranda Maxson September 30, 1858 Geneva, New York |
| Died | January 24, 1917 (aged 58) Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Herbert Edgar Cobb |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Hungerford Collegiate Institute |
| Alma mater | Syracuse University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Art History |
| Institutions | Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College Colorado State University |
Sara Miranda Cobb (née Maxson; also known as Sara Maxson Cobb and Sara M. Maxson-Cobb; September 30, 1858 – January 24, 1917) was a 19th-century American art teacher, artist, and writer from the U.S. state of New York. She served as director of the Art School of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College at Kents Hill, Maine, and taught drawing at Colorado State University.
Early years and education
Sara Miranda Maxson was born in Geneva, New York, September 30, 1858, the daughter of Dr. Edwin R. and Lucy (Lanphear) Maxson.[1] She traces her lineage on her father's side to the Maxtons, of Maxton-on-the-Tweed, in Scotland. Her father's family came to America in 1701, after having been settled in England for generations. Her father, Edwin Robinson Maxson, A.M., M.D., LL.D., a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had been a lecturer on medical subjects in the colleges of Philadelphia and Geneva. His Practice of Medicine and Hospitals: British, French and American were well-known books. Her mother, Lucy Potter Lamphere, was of French-English ancestry.[2]
In 1864, the family removed to
Career
Through the late Chancellor C. N. Sims of the university, she obtained the position of director of the Art School of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College at Kents Hill, Maine, a position she held from 1886 to 1890. During that time, in 1888, she was one of a large party to visit the United Kingdom and France.[3]
In 1890, she was married to Professor Herbert Edgar Cobb, a member of the faculty at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and a graduate of the Wesleyan University at
Personal life
Cobb was engaged in philanthropic work and the study of social science since 1892.[4] A strong literary taste and sympathy for active philanthropic and Christian enterprise led her into many additional types of work. Her numerous poems, stories told in verse, translations from the German, travel correspondence, and articles on art subjects were included in prominent publications. Cobb was a believer in united action, and in the many societies to which she belonged, missionary, temperance, art, literary and scientific, she was recognized as a superior organizer and leader. Geology, microscopy and photography claimed a share of her attention, and she had an interesting collection of specimens of her own finding, slides of her own mounting and photographs of her own taking. She delighted in music and had a cultivated contralto voice.[2]
Cobb died January 24, 1917, aged 58, from
References
- ^ a b c d Utter 1917, pp. 319–320.
- ^ a b c d Willard & Livermore 1897, p. 186.
- ^ a b c Utter 1917, p. 319-20.
- ^ Syracuse University 1899, p. 377.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Syracuse University's Alumni Record and General Catalogue of Syracuse University (1899)- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: G. B. Utter's The Sabbath Recorder (1917)
- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: F. E. Willard & M. A. R. Livermore's American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits : a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century (1897)
Bibliography
- Syracuse University (1899). Alumni Record and General Catalogue of Syracuse University (Public domain ed.). Syracuse University. p. 377.
- Utter, George B. (1917). The Sabbath Recorder (Public domain ed.). George B. Utter.
- Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1897). American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits : a Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century (Public domain ed.). Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick. p. 186.