Kentucky


Sarah Francis Price
(1849 - 1903)

Sarah “Sadie” Price was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1849 and moved to Kentucky when she was just a baby.  Price was semi-invalid, so she taught drawing and painting classes from her bed.  She was cured by a doctor in Philadelphia and became interested in nature.  By the 1880’s Price had begun her career as an amateur botanist.  She taught nature classes, led excursions, and wrote books and articles about nature.  Price discovered many new species, including varieties in the aster, clematis, dogwood, groundnut, sour grass, and violet families.  Price published three books and her exhibit of watercolor sketches took place at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Colombim Explosion.  Price died in 1903 at the age of fifty-four.