Sarah B. Capron

Sarah B. Capron ( Hooker; 1824–1918) was an American evangelical missionary. She served for 30 years as a missionary in India along three lines, by educational work, by medical work, and by training Bible women for evangelistic work. For three years, she conducted the boarding school in Madura, later Capron Hall School. Later, she opened a boarding school in Manamadura, and still later supervised day schools for Hindu girls, with an attendance of hundreds. In all of these, she pursued original methods to do her work. She qualified herself for simple medical practice, going among the homes and opening a dispensary, and had the satisfaction of seeing this develop into the Madura Hospital for Women and Children. For 24 years, she served on the Executive Committee of the Woman's Board, and for five years, She was in charge of the women's department in the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.

Early life and education Sarah Brown Hooker was born in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, April 24, 1828. Her paternal grandfather was Thomas Hooker, of Rutland, Vermont, who was a lineal descendant of Thomas Hooker of the Connecticut Colony. Her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Brown Hooker, was a daughter of Lieutenant Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, who retired from the army because he distrusted Benedict Arnold, but who afterward died in service at Stone Arabia, in New York, in 1780. Her father was the Rev. Henry Brown Hooker, D.D., a minister of the Congregational church in Lanesboro, afterward in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, receiving his appointment from Governor George N. Briggs . His last work was as the secretary of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society. Her mother, whose maiden name was Martha Vinal Chickering, resided in Boston before marriage. and was leaving the country, a Brahmin gentleman, followed by a servant bearing a large brass tray, made his way through the crowd, and, coming to the window of the car where Capron was sitting, asked her to come to the platform. Placing an enormous wreath of buds of the white jasamine with touches of pink oleander upon her shoulders, he said, "I bring to you this as a token of the regard of our families for what you have done for the women of our city." Later in life, Capron moved in with her daughter Laura.

A year before her death, J. P. Jones published Capron's biography.

Sarah B. Capron died on December 15, 1918.

The Sarah Brown Hooker Capron papers are held at the University of Pennsylvania.