1879-1962
Sarah Ball was head of Newark’s business library from 1907 to about 1919. She was inducted into Special Library hall of fame in 1959 with Alma Mitchell. She helped found the Special Libraries Association.
Later Sarah became a bookseller in New York (Ball & Wilde) and died in Hartford, CT.
Sarah was born in Pennsylvania and graduated Pratt Library School in 1902.
Bibliography
Ball, Sarah B, Newark News Morgue, Newark Library
“Library Unit to Honor Five” Newark Sunday News May 3, 1959
Ancestry.com: Censuses and Connecticut Death Index
In Memoriam, Special Libraries Oct 1962, https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=sla_sl_1962
“Sarah Bedell Ball” New York Times Oct 26, 1962 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/10/26/issue.html
Pratt Class of 1902: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pratt_Institute_Monthly/YncmAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22sarah+bedell+ball%22&pg=PA28-IA3&printsec=frontcover