[2] Craft was a social reformer who traveled the world advocating on behalf of Sunday schools, temperance, and anti-opium.

She was also "one of the first women to conduct convention sessions" in the U.S.[3] Sara Jane Timanus was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 15, 1845.

[1][2] She was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, at Ohio Wesleyan Female College, and at Iowa University, Grinnell.

She was an instructor in various Sunday school normal institutes, State conventions, and Chautauqua assemblies.

In 1895, she was made superintendent of the Sunday school Department of the World’s Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

[2][5] Between 1880 and 1913, she traveled extensively in Europe and the Orient in the interest of temperance, anti-opium, and reform movements.

[7] She was also a member of the National Geographic Society, British Esperanto Association, and the Archaeological Institute of America.