Sarah Powers Bradish | |
Birth Name: | Sarah E. Powers |
Birth Date: | 1867 |
Death Date: | 1922 |
Nationality: | American |
Alma Mater: | Ripon College, (B. A., 1871) |
Occupation: | Writer, temperance activist |
Spouse: | James H. Bradish |
Children: | Bertha and Herman |
Parents: | Moses H. Powers of Green Lake, Wisconsin |
Known For: | Writing on Norse mythology |
Sarah Powers Bradish (1867–1922) was an American writer. She is known for her textbook Old Norse Stories, published in 1900,[1] and a memoir titled ... Stories of Country Life.
Sarah Powers Bradish is also known for her service as Wisconsin State Secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
She was a graduate of Ripon College and traveled extensively in Europe. She traveled in England and France from 1872 to 1873. She resided in Dartford, Wisconsin, from 1873 to 1874; in Ripon, Wisconsin, from 1874 to 1875; and in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1875 to 1894.[2]
Her husband, James H. Bradish, also attended Ripon College. He became assistant general solicitor of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company, and a Minneapolis alderman. The couple had two children, Bertha and Herman.[3]