Sarah Peter

Sarah Anne Worthington King Peter (10 May 1800, Chillicothe, Ohio - 6 February 1877, Cincinnati) was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts. Life Sarah Anne Worthington was born on May 10, 1800, at Chillicothe, Ohio. Her father, Thomas Worthington, was Governor of Ohio, from 1814–18, and also served in the United States Senate. She attended private schools in Frankfort, Kentucky, and in Washington, D.C. On May 15, 1816, she married Edward King, son of Rufus King of New York. In 1831, she and her husband moved from Chillicothe to Cincinnati, where he died on February 6, 1836. Following Edward King's death, she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to be near two of her children attending Harvard. In October 1844, she married William Peter, British consul at Philadelphia. During her residence at Philadelphia, she founded on December 2, 1850, the Philadelphia School of Design for Women now Moore College of Art and Design. Today, Moore College of Art & Design annually enrolls more than 500 women in its undergraduate BFA program. She attended St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia at Third and Pine during this time. William Peter died on February 6, 1853.