Sarah Cowles Little

Henry Cowles, D. D., a professor in Oberlin Theological Seminary, and an eminent scholar, author and divine.

He was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, and was descended from an old New England family of English origin.

[4] After graduation, Little taught for two years in the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, and in the fall of 1861, went to Janesville, Wisconsin, to serve as principal teacher in the Wisconsin School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, of which Thomas H. Little was the superintendent.

To the difficulty of carrying on the school work in small and inconvenient quarters was added the supervision of the erection of the enlarged new building.

During the time of her superintendency, the Wisconsin School for the Blind was one of the best managed institutions of the kind in the country, and she was recognized as a leader in educational circles.

She continued at the head of the school until August 1891, leaving it at the close of 30 years of active service, more than 16 of them as superintendent.