Sarah Crocker Conway
{{short description|American actress}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Sarah Crocker Conway
| image = Sarah Crocker Conway.png
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1834}}
| birth_place = Ridgefield, Connecticut, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1875|04|28|1834||}}
| death_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
| resting_place =
| occupation = Actress
| employer =
| spouse = {{Marriage|Frederick B. Conway|May 1852}}
| children =
| relatives = Elizabeth Crocker Bowers (sister), Conway Tearle (grandson), Godfrey Tearle (grandson)
| awards =
| education =
| party =
}}
Sarah Crocker Conway (1834–1875) was an American actress.[http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/atho/atho.detail.people.aspx?personcode=per0043716 Sarah Crocker Conway; North American Theatre Online] She was a sister of Elizabeth Crocker Bowers, also an actress.[http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/atho/atho.result.epages.aspx?code=S10017158-D000015.016 portrait of sisters Elizabeth Crocker Bowers and Sarah Crocker Conway]
Biography
Sarah Crocker was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1834.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-4pAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA360 |title=The National Cyclopedia of American Biography |volume=XI |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=360 |year=1901 |access-date=2020-08-07 |via=Google Books}} She made her debut in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1849, playing Parthenia and other leading parts. In May 1852, she married the actor Frederick B. Conway, and the two thenceforward acted together. In 1859, they opened Pike's Opera House in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a first-class company, but the engagement was not profitable, and they returned to the east. In 1861, they visited England, and filled a short engagement at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. After their return, they became star actors, and made an extensive and profitable tour. In 1864 Sarah leased the Park Theatre in Brooklyn, and subsequently the new Brooklyn Theatre, in which for nine years her husband played leading parts. Sarah Conway possessed a tall and graceful figure and an expressive countenance, and was a versatile actress and a popular theatre manager.
She was the mother of actress Marianne "Minnie" Conway (c. 1852-1896). Her grandsons, through Minnie, were actors Conway Tearle and Sir Godfrey Tearle.[http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/atho/atho.result.epages.aspx?code=S10017158-D000015.022 Mrs. Sarah Conway and daughter Marianne 'Minnie' Conway; Alexander Street North American Theatre Online]
Sara Conway died in her apartment at the Brooklyn Theatre on April 28, 1875.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56862081/death-of-mrs-f-b-conway-last-night/ "Death of Mrs. F. B. Conway Last Night"] Brooklyn Daily Eagle, p. 2, April 29, 1875
References
{{reflist}}
- {{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Conway, William A.|year=1900}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Conway, Sarah Crocker}}
Category:19th-century American actresses
Category:American stage actresses
{{US-stage-actor-stub}}