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Sara Louisa Oberholtzer (born in Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 20 May 1841; died 2 February 1930) was a United States poet and activist. ==Biography== She was born Sara Louisa Vickers, and educated at Friends Boarding School, the state normal school in Millersville, and by private tutors. On 1 January 1862, she married John Oberholtzer, of Norristown, Pennsylvania. She was president of the Anti-Tobacco Society (organized by her in 1881), Longport Agassiz Microscopial Society (organized by her in 1884), the Soldiers' Aid Society, the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Pennsylvania Woman's Press Association (1903–05) and superintendent of the School Savings Bank of Pennsylvania.〔 Beginning in 1890, Oberholtzer devoted much of her time to the introduction of the school savings banks system into the public schools of the United States and Canada. Her bulletin on “School Savings Banks,” written for the United States Bureau of Education, and printed by the government in 1914, was widely distributed. Files of her ''Thrift Tidings'', a quarterly she issued regularly for the public beginning in 1907, could be found in most public libraries. She was the acknowledged leader of the school savings banks movement, which was established in public schools in nearly every state in the United States and some schools in Canada.〔 She was one of the speakers at the first meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D.C. (1890), at the World's Congress of Women in Chicago in 1893, at the Geneva (Switzerland) meeting in 1903, and elsewhere.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sara Louisa Oberholtzer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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